Global Constraints in Scheduling

Abstract

In this place, I would like to say my best thanks to everyone who supported me in my work and helped me along my whole Ph.D. study. First of all I owe a major debt to my supervisor Doc. RNDr. Roman Barták, Ph.D. for his patient leading, collaboration, support and help; especially for guidingmy research to this topic, providing important information from CP field, helping me publish my papers and reviewing them (most of them several times). Next I want to thank to Doc. RNDr. Ondřej Čepek, Ph.D. I wrote with him and Roman Barták a paper to CP 2004 which was very successful. They both contributed to this success. I also wish to express my gratitude to the whole CP community. To anonymous reviewers for providing me valuable feedback, for pointing out flaws in my papers and helping me to fix them. To my mentors on CP conferences who gave me a lot of helpful advices concerning my research and this a Ph.D. Thesis. I'm also very thankful to all the people with whom I could discuss during several conferences - they often asked very good questions; and good questions are often one half of whole research. My special thanks belongs to Philippe Baptiste, Mats Carlsson, Narendra Jussien, Philippe Laborie, Francois Laburthe, Narendra Jussien, Claude Le Pape, Jean-Charles Régin, Jerome Rôgerie, Francesca Rossi and...