Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Uetz Marc Author-workplace-name: METEOR Title: When greediness fails: Examples from stochastic scheduling Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present examples which show that deterministic and stochastic scheduling problems often have a surprisingly different behavior. In particular, it demonstrates some seemingly counterintuitive properties of optimal scheduling policies for stochastic machine scheduling problems. Keywords: Economics ; Series: Research Memoranda Creation-Date: 2002 Number: 067 File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:be857341-3afc-4716-8417-1a63c14fc0bc/datastreams/ASSET1/content File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 57661 Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2002067