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Fifty years of scheduling: a survey of milestones
2009
Journal of the Operational Research Society
Scheduling has become a major field within operational research with several hundred publications appearing each year. This paper explores the historical development of the subject since the mid 1950s when the landmark publications started to appear. A discussion of the main topics of scheduling research for the past five decades is provided, highlighting the key contributions that helped shape the subject. The main topics covered in the respective decades are combinatorial analysis, branch and
doi:10.1057/jors.2009.2
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