Open AccessThe Evolution of Scheduling Applications and Tools
Author(s) -
Boddy Mark
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
ai magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2371-9621
pISSN - 0738-4602
DOI - 10.1609/aimag.v38i1.2718
Subject(s) - scheduling (production processes) , computer science , scope (computer science) , industrial engineering , systems engineering , operations research , distributed computing , engineering , operations management , programming language
The available tools and support for building planning and scheduling systems and applications have been steadily improving for decades. At the same time, the scope, scale, and complexity of the problems to be addressed have been increasing. In this column, I discuss several different scheduling applications developed over the past 25 years and then describe the tools and techniques used in addressing these problems, showing how improved tools simplified (and in some cases enabled) the solution of problems of increasing difficulty.