Abstract: The purpose of this article is to initiate a research in one of the main parts of time management, which is an extremely useful activity that implies an effective use of personal time. Namely, we propose to include optimal scheduling algorithms into time management techniques. Specifically, we consider a time management system including two persons, one of which is a supervisor. In scheduling theory, such a processing system may be modeled as a two-machine flowshop with the objective of minimizing the makespan. Due to a specificity of the scheduling process for a person, it is assumed that the job processing times may be uncertain before scheduling. Moreover, for time management, it is necessary to consider on-line scheduling along with usual off-line scheduling for a set of jobs to be completed by a person during a day.

Keywords: Scheduling, flowshop, time management.

ACM Classification Keywords: Management.

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TIME MANAGEMENT BASED ON TWO-MACHINE FLOWSHOP SCHEDULING WITH UNCERTAIN JOB PROCESSING TIMES

Yuri N. Sotskov, Natalja M. Matsveichuk, Andrei A. Kasiankou, Frank Werner

http://www.foibg.com/ijitk/ijitk-vol08/ijitk08-03-p02.pdf