This work presents the study of two scheduling problems. The former concerns the exact and centralised resolution of a single machine problem, and the latter, the distributed and cooperative resolution of a job shop, each machine being viewed as an actor having its own decision autonomy. For both problems, dominance conditions are used, in the first case, in order to reduce the algorithmic complexity for seeking feasible or optimal solutions, and in the second case, to increase the ability of each actor to face uncertainties. In the _rst part, a theorem, stated in the early eighties, is recalled that allows to characterize a set of dominant solutions, considering a one-machine sequencing problem. On the basis of the theorem, new analytical ...