Generalized scheduling development environment

A generalized scheduling development environment allows a person who composes schedules to specify both an application and a methodology, in developing a scheduling program. The authors have designed such a system and have built a proof-of-concept prototype. The prototype has been tested on two fairly different application examples. It demonstrates the expressive capability of logic programming in representing the diversity of the two examples, and it exemplifies a method of achieving generality in the domain of scheduling.