This volume contains the proceedings of an Advanced Study and Re­ search Institute on Theoretical Approaches to Scheduling Problems. The Institute was held in Durham, England, from July 6 to July 17, 1981. It was attended by 91 participants from fifteen different countries. The format of the Institute was somewhat unusual. The first eight of the ten available days were devoted to an Advanced Study Insti­ tute, with lectures on the state of the art with respect to deter­ ministic and stochastic scheduling models and on the interface between these two approaches. The last two days were occupied by an Advanced Research Institute, where recent results and promising directions for future research, especially in the interface area, were discussed. Altogether, 37 lectures were delivered by 24 lecturers. They have all contributed to these proceedings, the first part of which deals with the Advanced Study Institute and the second part of which covers the Advanced Research Institute. Each part is preceded by an introduction, written by the editors. While confessing to a natural bias as organizers, we believe that the Institute has been a rewarding and enjoyable event for everyone concerned. We are very grateful to all those who have contributed to its realization.

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I. Advanced Study Institute Proceedings.- Worst-Case Analysis of Heuristic Algorithms for Scheduling And Packing.- Recent Developments in Deterministic Sequencing and Scheduling: A Survey.- On Scheduling with Release Times and Deadlines.- Scheduling Uniform Machines with Release Times, Deadlines and Due Times.- Preemptive Scheduling of Precedence-Constrained Jobs on Parallel Machines.- Forwards Induction and Dynamic Allocation Indices.- Multiserver Stochastic Scheduling.- Stochastic Shop Scheduling: A Survey.- Multi-Server Queues.- Queueing Networks and their Computer System Applications: An Introductory Survey.- Stationary Properties of timed Vector Addition Systems.- The Multiproduct lot Scheduling Problem.- An Introduction to Proof Techniques for Bin-Packing Approximation Algorithms.- A Stochastic Approach to Hierarchical Planning and Scheduling.- On Stochastic Analysis of Project-Networks.- II. Advanced Research Institute, Proceedings.- Probabilistic Analysis of the Lpt Processor Scheduling Heuristic.- Sequential Project Selection (Multi-Armed Bandits) and the Gittins Index.- Dominant Strategies in Stochastic Allocation and Scheduling Problems.- On the Computational Complexity of Stochastic Scheduling Problems.- Deterministic and Stochastic Scheduling Problems with Treelike Precedence Constraints.- On the Evaluation of Non-Preemptive Strategies in Stochastic Scheduling.- Sequential Open-Loop Scheduling Strategies.- On the Delay Functions Achievable by Non-Preemptive Scheduling Strategies in M/G/L Queues.- Modelling for Multiprocessor Projects.- Addresses of Authors.- Name Index.