The theoretical approach of OR and AI to scheduling often is not applicable to the dynamic characteristics of the actual situation. A preliminary field study is used to illustrate that the basic theoretical approach does not represent the reality of open job-shop scheduling, and its applicability is limited to those situations that are fundamentally static and behave like the models. Better understanding and modeling of the scheduling situation is needed.
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McKay et al. (1988) studied this question.
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