Table of contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to Flexibility and Robustness in sChapter 2. Robustness in operations research and decision aidingcheduling; Chapter 3. The robustness of multi-purpose machines workshop configuration; Chapter 4. Sensitivity analysis for one and m machines; Chapter 5. Service level in scheduling; Chapter 6. Metaheuristics for robust planning and scheduling; Chapter 7. Metaheuristics and performance evaluation models for the stochastic permutation Flow-shop scheduling problem; Chapter 8. Resource allocation for the construction of robust project schedules; Chapter 9. Constraint-based approaches for robust scheduling; Chapter 10. Scheduling operation groups: A multicriteria approach to provide sequential flexibility; Chapter 11. A flexible proactive-reactive approach: The case of an assembly workshop; Chapter 12. Stabilization for parallel applications; Chapter 13. Contribution to a proactive/reactive control of time critical systems; Chapter 14. Small perturbations on some NP-complete scheduling problems.
