1. A method for determining a print job schedule for a printing production facility having a set of availably printing resources, comprising: defining one or more scheduling classifications; receiving one or more print jobs, each print job having a print job description specified by a set of print job attributes; determining one or more scheduling classification corresponding to the received print jobs; using a processor to automatically determine the print job schedule for the received print jobs using an answer set programming language solver responsive to: the print job descriptions; a set of resource descriptions for the available printing resources; a set of scheduling rules, wherein the scheduling rules are answer set programming statements; and a historical decision database stored in a processor accessible memory, wherein the historical decision database stores an indication of previously successful decision frequencies as a function of scheduling classification; wherein the print job schedule assigns a time schedule and one or more printing resources for each of the received print jobs.
1. A method for determining a print job schedule for a printing production facility having a set of availably printing resources, comprising: defining one or more scheduling classifications; receiving one or more print jobs, each print job having a print job description specified by a set of print job attributes; determining one or more scheduling classification corresponding to the received print jobs; using a processor to automatically determine the print job schedule for the received print jobs using an answer set programming language solver responsive to: the print job descriptions; a set of resource descriptions for the available printing resources; a set of scheduling rules, wherein the scheduling rules are answer set programming statements; and a historical decision database stored in a processor accessible memory, wherein the historical decision database stores an indication of previously successful decision frequencies as a function of scheduling classification; wherein the print job schedule assigns a time schedule and one or more printing resources for each of the received print jobs. 26. The method of claim 1 further including printing the received print jobs according to the determined print job schedule using the available printing resources.