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Book Project Scheduling under Resource Constraints

Download or read book Project Scheduling under Resource Constraints written by Rainer Kolisch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the field of resource-constrained project scheduling. State-of-the-art reviews of optimal and heuristic procedures are provided for classical project scheduling models. Furthermore, new models which are relevant for practical problem settings, are introduced. The main emphasis is on newly developed competitive heuristic methods. Contents: Introduction. - Description of the Problems.- Classification of Schedules.- Characterisation and Generation of Instances.- The Single-Mode Project Scheduling Problem.- The Multi-Mode Project Scheduling Problem.- Project Scheduling with Given Deadline.- Project Scheduling with Setup Times.- Applications to Production Management.- Concluding Remarks.- List of Notations.- List of Abbreviations.

Book A Heuristic Procedure for Resource constrained Project Scheduling

Download or read book A Heuristic Procedure for Resource constrained Project Scheduling written by Vichit Suraphongschai and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Project Scheduling

Download or read book Project Scheduling written by Jan Weglarz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project scheduling problems are, generally speaking, the problems of allocating scarce resources over time to perform a given set of activities. The resources are nothing other than the arbitrary means which activities complete for. Also the activities can have a variety of interpretations. Thus, project scheduling problems appear in a large spectrum of real-world situations, and, in consequence, they have been intensively studied for almost fourty years. Almost a decade has passed since the multi-author monograph: R. Slowinski, 1. W~glarz (eds. ), Advances in Project Scheduling, Elsevier, 1989, summarizing the state-of-the-art across project scheduling problems, was published. Since then, considerable progress has been made in all directions of modelling and finding solutions to these problems. Thus, the proposal by Professor Frederick S. Hillier to edit a handbook which reports on the recent advances in the field came at an exceptionally good time and motivated me to accept the challenge. Fortunately, almost all leading experts in the field have accepted my invitation and presented their completely new advances often combined with expository surveys. Thanks to them, the handbook stands a good chance of becoming a key reference point on the current state-of-the-art in project scheduling, as well as on new directions in the area. The contents are divided into four parts. The first one, dealing with classical models -exact algorithms, is preceded by a proposition of the classification scheme for scheduling problems.

Book Advances in Project Scheduling

Download or read book Advances in Project Scheduling written by R. Slowinski and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-author volume, containing contributions from international experts in the field, presents recent developments in project scheduling for both theory and practice. It is organized in three parts: I. Basic deterministic models; II. Special deterministic models; III. Stochastic models. A variety of approaches is presented dealing with multiple-category resource constraints, different mathematical models of activities, and various project performance measures in single and multiobjective formulation. Exact and heuristic algorithms are presented for both deterministic and stochastic project description.The volume will be of special interest to scientists, students, decision makers, executive managers, consultants and practitioners involved in systems management or operations research, in particular in business, engineering, and finance, but also in other areas of pure and applied sciences.

Book Using Combinations of Heuristics to Schedule Activities of Constrained Multiple Resource Projects

Download or read book Using Combinations of Heuristics to Schedule Activities of Constrained Multiple Resource Projects written by Lucy C. Morse and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although both the Critical Path Method (CPM) and the Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) are common approaches used for project scheduling, neither method considers the availability of resources in the scheduling process, and both methods use constraints of precedence only. This article reports on a study to find a quick and simple procedure for scheduling activities of a constrained multiple-resource single-project network that will lower project costs and minimize project duration. The study considered ten priority-rule based heuristics that are used to determine priorities for activities competing for constrained resources, and applied them to the durations of a group of 108 network problems. The results showed that a combination of different heuristics to schedule project activities gave more optimal solutions than other previously used methods. Different heuristics are more applicable to certain network problems, due to the variable nature of network structure and resource availability.

Book Project Scheduling under Limited Resources

Download or read book Project Scheduling under Limited Resources written by Sönke Hartmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaches to project scheduling under resource constraints are discussed in this book. After an overview of different models, it deals with exact and heuristic scheduling algorithms. The focus is on the development of new algorithms. Computational experiments demonstrate the efficiency of the new heuristics. Finally, it is shown how the models and methods discussed here can be applied to projects in research and development as well as market research.

Book An Heuristic Scheduling Algorithm for Resource Constrained Project Networks

Download or read book An Heuristic Scheduling Algorithm for Resource Constrained Project Networks written by Stewart Iden Marsh (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An algorithm is proposed for scheduling project networks having a single constraining resource and a constant level of available resources. The algorithm seeks to generate a minimum length schedule indirectly by maximizing the average resource utilization over the two time intervals represented by the current decision point and its successor. An attempt is made to schedule all of the activities whose predecessors have been completed; failing this, all feasible subsets are considered. Where possible, the algorithm considers only those subsets which introduce new activities at the subsequent decision point.

Book Resource Constrained Project Scheduling

Download or read book Resource Constrained Project Scheduling written by Christian Artigues and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title presents a large variety of models and algorithms dedicated to the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP), which aims at scheduling at minimal duration a set of activities subject to precedence constraints and limited resource availabilities. In the first part, the standard variant of RCPSP is presented and analyzed as a combinatorial optimization problem. Constraint programming and integer linear programming formulations are given. Relaxations based on these formulations and also on related scheduling problems are presented. Exact methods and heuristics are surveyed. Computational experiments, aiming at providing an empirical insight on the difficulty of the problem, are provided. The second part of the book focuses on several other variants of the RCPSP and on their solution methods. Each variant takes account of real-life characteristics which are not considered in the standard version, such as possible interruptions of activities, production and consumption of resources, cost-based approaches and uncertainty considerations. The last part presents industrial case studies where the RCPSP plays a central part. Applications are presented in various domains such as assembly shop and rolling ingots production scheduling, project management in information technology companies and instruction scheduling for VLIW processor architectures.

Book A COMPARISON OF HEURISTICS FOR PREEMPTIVE RESOURCE CONSTRAINED PROJECT SCHEDULING

Download or read book A COMPARISON OF HEURISTICS FOR PREEMPTIVE RESOURCE CONSTRAINED PROJECT SCHEDULING written by Lori K. Richter and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resource constrained Project Scheduling

Download or read book Resource constrained Project Scheduling written by Arno Sprecher and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Heuristic Scheduling Algorithm for Resource constrained Project Networks

Download or read book An Heuristic Scheduling Algorithm for Resource constrained Project Networks written by Stewart Iden Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Heuristic to Maximize the Net Present Value for Resource constrained Project scheduling Problems

Download or read book A Heuristic to Maximize the Net Present Value for Resource constrained Project scheduling Problems written by Ghaleb Y. Abbasi and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this research was to schedule project activities based on maximum net present value (NPV) and minimum duration. A new hybrid heuristic based on the combination of minimum late start (MLS) and shortest processing time (SPT) priority-rules heuristics was developed. The new late start and shortest processing time (LSSPT) heuristic was tested using 60 problems of the Patterson set, and results compared with 4 other heuristics. To test all 5 previous heuristics, 5 computer programs were developed. Statistical analysis was performed. Results indicate that the new heuristic produced better and encouraging results.