| Article ID: | iaor20127616 | 
| Volume: | 33 | 
| Issue: | 1 | 
| Start Page Number: | 87 | 
| End Page Number: | 92 | 
| Publication Date: | Jan 1999 | 
| Journal: | RAIRO - Operations Research | 
| Authors: | Maculan Nelson, Ribeiro Celso C, Porto Stella C S, Cid Carvalho de Souza Celso C | 
| Keywords: | combinatorial optimization | 
We give a new formulation for the problem of task scheduling into unrelated processors under precedence constraints. This formulation has a polynomial number of variables and does not require that the processing times be integer valued.