Chapter 1. Statement of production scheduling (Francois Roubellat and Pierre Lopez). Chapter 2. Basic concepts and methods in production scheduling (Patrick Esquirol and Pierre Lopez). Chapter 3. Metaheuristics (Marino Widmer, Alain Hertz and Daniel Costa). Chapter 4. Genetic algorithms and scheduling (Marie-Claude Portmann and Antony Vignier). Chapter 5. Constraint propagation and scheduling (Patrick Esquirol, Pierre Lopez and Marie-Jose Huguet). Chapter 6. Simulation approach (Gerard Bel and Jean-Bernard Cavaille). Chapter 7. Cyclic production scheduling (Jean-Claude Gentina, Ouajdi Korbaa and Herve Camus). Chapter 8. Mixed-model assembly lines sequencing (Yannick Frein and Emmanuel Castelain). Chapter 9. Hoist scheduling (Pierre Baptiste, Christelle Bloch and Christophe Varnier). Chapter 10. Multi-resource shop scheduling (Jean-Charles Billaut, Jacques Carlier, Emmanuel Neron and Antoine Oliver). Chapter 11. Open shop scheduling (Christian Prins). Chapter 12. Scheduling under flexible constraints and uncertain data: a fuzzy approach (Didier Dubois, Helene Fargier and Philippe Fortemps). Chapter 13. Real-time workshop scheduling (Christian Artigues and Francois Roubellat).