| Article ID: | iaor20043105 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 413 |
| End Page Number: | 419 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2003 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Uetz Marc |
| Keywords: | stochastic processes |
The purpose of this paper is to present examples for the sometimes surprisingly different behavior of deterministic and stochastic scheduling problems. In particular, it demonstrates some seemingly counterintuitive properties of optimal scheduling policies for stochastic machine scheduling problems.