The manufacturing industry directly reflects the productivity level of a country and plays an
important role in economic and social development. However, with the development of the …

In recent years, OFDM has been the focus of extensive research efforts in optical
transmission and networking, initially as a means to overcome physical impairments in …

Project scheduling is concerned with single-item or small batch production where scarce
resources have to be allocated to dependent activities over time. Applications can be found …

Despite more than a decade of experimental work in multi-robot systems, important
theoretical aspects of multi-robot coordination mechanisms have, to date, been largely …

Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space addresses robot control in depth, treating a
range of model-based controllers in detail: proportional derivative; proportional integral …

The scheduling of computer and manufacturing systems has been the subject of extensive
research for over forty years. In addition to computers and manufacturing, scheduling theory …

Graph colouring and its generalizations are useful tools in modelling a wide variety of
scheduling and assignment problems. In this paper we review several variants of graph …

Multiprocessor tasks require more than one processor at the same moment of time. This
relatively new concept in scheduling theory emerged with the advent of parallel computing …

Scheduling is concerned with allocating limited resources to tasks to optimize certain
objective functions. Due to the popularity of the Total Quality Management concept, on-time …

In the pursuit of an efficient cooperative multi-robot system, the researcher must eventually
answer the question “how should robots communicate?”; a natural way to attack this …