“More than 90 well-known authors in this area have made contributions to this handbook … . This handbook is certainly valuable for researchers that want to get an impression on recent research areas and also an overview on existing results. … [T]his handbook presents a huge volume of recent research in different scheduling areas, and certainly will stimulate further developments in many directions … .” — Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2005d “This is an absolutely excellent, rigorous, mathematical book, something that the scheduling literature has, until now, really lacked…consists of high quality contributions that embrace all the significant and hot topics of the field.” Computing Reviews, 2005

• Introduction. Classical Scheduling Problems. Other Scheduling Models. Real-Time Scheduling. Stochastic Scheduling and Queueing Networks. Applications.