Download or read book Some Approaches to the Critical Path Scheduling Resource Allocation Problem written by Fred Lawrence Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Practical Approach to Project Scheduling written by Ramkumar Harikrishnakumar and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-managed project results in efficient scheduling of the interrelated components of work tasks, resources, stakeholders and budgets plans. The goal is for project managers to be able to generate an initial schedule at an early stage of product development. Due to complex product development, uncertainties and variabilities exists during manufacturing process. Variable processing times may lead to multiple critical paths within the system. Based on the real world demands of project managers two objectives are considered: Identification of multiple critical paths within the system and minimize completion time of the activity by optimal resource allocation. To solve this problem, a mixed integer linear programming model (MILP) is proposed. The Multiple critical path scheduling approach (MCPSA) is developed to identify multiple critical paths dominant in a system. A criticality index is used as performance metric to measure the intensity of the critical path in comparison to the project completion time. An interface of MS- Project with a simulation software (@RISK) is used to obtain the results. An application of two auger screws used in extrusion molding machines from a leading manufacturer in Kansas is used to illustrate the case study models and the MCPSA algorithm.

Download or read book Critical Path Method written by M. Krishnamoorthy and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book Critical Path Analysis in Practice written by Gail Thornley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1968 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Download or read book Project Management written by Jack R. Meredith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 1315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the use of project management to accomplish organisational goals continues to grow, skills related to understanding human behavior, evaluating organisational issues, and using quantitative methods are all necessary for successful project management. Meredith and Mantel have drawn from experiences in the workplace to develop a text that teaches the student how to build skills necessary for selecting, initiating, operating, and controlling all types of projects.

Download or read book A Computer Approach to Resource Allocation Within the Framework of C P M Scheduling written by Jerry Lee Horacek and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scheduling of Resource Constrained Projects written by Robert Klein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project management has become a widespread instrument enabling organizations to efficiently master the challenges of steadily shortening product life cycles, global markets and decreasing profit margins. With projects increasing in size and complexity, their planning and control represents one of the most crucial management tasks. This is especially true for scheduling, which is concerned with establishing execution dates for the sub-activities to be performed in order to complete the project. The ability to manage projects where resources must be allocated between concurrent projects or even sub-activities of a single project requires the use of commercial project management software packages. However, the results yielded by the solution procedures included are often rather unsatisfactory. Scheduling of Resource-Constrained Projects develops more efficient procedures, which can easily be integrated into software packages by incorporated programming languages, and thus should be of great interest for practitioners as well as scientists working in the field of project management. The book is divided into two parts. In Part I, the project management process is described and the management tasks to be accomplished during project planning and control are discussed. This allows for identifying the major scheduling problems arising in the planning process, among which the resource-constrained project scheduling problem is the most important. Part II deals with efficient computer-based procedures for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem and its generalized version. Since both problems are NP-hard, the development of such procedures which yield satisfactory solutions in a reasonable amount of computation time is very challenging, and a number of new and very promising approaches are introduced. This includes heuristic procedures based on priority rules and tabu search as well as lower bound methods and branch and bound procedures which can be applied for computing optimal solutions.

Download or read book Population Based Approaches to the Resource Constrained and Discrete Continuous Scheduling written by Ewa Ratajczak-Ropel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses two of the most difficult and computationally intractable classes of problems: discrete resource constrained scheduling, and discrete-continuous scheduling. The first part of the book discusses problems belonging to the first class, while the second part deals with problems belonging to the second class. Both parts together offer valuable insights into the possibility of implementing modern techniques and tools with a view to obtaining high-quality solutions to practical and, at the same time, computationally difficult problems. It offers a valuable source of information for practitioners dealing with the real-world scheduling problems in industry, management and administration. The authors have been working on the respective problems for the last decade, gaining scientific recognition through publications and active participation in the international scientific conferences, and their results are obtained using population-based methods. Dr E. Ratajczk-Ropel explores multiple agent and A-Team concepts, while Dr A. Skakovski focuses on evolutionary algorithms with a particular focus on the population learning paradigm.

Download or read book Resource Constrained Project Scheduling written by Arno Sprecher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a project human and non-human resources are pulled together in a tempo raray organization in order to achieve a predefined goal (d. [20], p. 187). That is, in contrast to manufacturing management, project management is directed to an end. One major function of project management is the scheduling of the project. Project scheduling is the time-based arrangement of the activities comprising the project subject to precedence-, time-and resource-constraints (d. [4], p. 170). In the 1950's the standard methods MPM (Metra Potential Method) and CPM (Cri tical Path Method) were developed. Given deterministic durations and precedence constraints the minimum project length, time windows for the start times and critical paths can be calculated. At the same time another group of researchers developed the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) (d. [19], [73] and [90]). In contrast to MPM and CPM, random variables describe the activity durations. Based on the optimistic, most likely and pessimistic estimations of the activity durations an assumed Beta distribution is derived in order to calculate the distribution of the project duration, the critical events, the distribution of earliest and latest occurence of an event, the distribution of the slack of the events and the probability of exceeding a date. By the time the estimates of the distributions have been improved (d. e.g. [52] and [56]). Nevertheless, there are some points of critique concerning the estimation of the resulting distributions and probabilities (d. e.g. [48], [49] and [50]).

Download or read book Journal of the Construction Division written by American Society of Civil Engineers. Construction Division and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book PMP Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide written by Kim Heldman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOTE: The exam this book covered, PMP: Project Management Professional Exam, was retired by PMI in 2018 and is no longer offered. For coverage of the current exam PMP: Project Management Professional Exam, please look for the latest edition of this guide: PMP: Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide, Ninth Edition (9781119420903). PMP® Study Guide, 8th Edition is a complete resource for PMP® exam preparation, featuring full coverage of all exam objectives, hands-on practice, and plenty of interactive tools. Fully updated to reflect the Project Management Institute's latest changes to the exam, this new edition includes the revised best practices in alignment with PMBOK® 5th edition. You'll find detailed discussion on a wide range of project management topics, concepts, and key terms, alongside frequent opportunities to gain hands-on practice using these skills in typical workplace scenarios. Each chapter includes comprehensive review questions to help you gauge your understanding, and you also gain access to the Sybex interactive online learning environment that features electronic flash cards, chapter tests, practice exams, and more. The IT marketplace demands certified project management professionals, and the PMP® certification was created specifically to address that demand. Now considered the premier project management credential, the PMP requires candidates to undergo a grueling four-hour exam. This book gives you everything you need to improve your skills and take the exam with confidence. Get hands-on practice in real-world scenarios Relate each objective to your current project Test your understanding with practice tests and more The PMP® Study Guide is your ultimate preparation resource for passing the PMP®. (PMI, PMBOK, CAPM, PMP, and Project Management Professional are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)

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Download or read book High Level Synthesis written by Philippe Coussy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an excellent collection of contributions addressing different aspects of high-level synthesis from both industry and academia. It includes an overview of available EDA tool solutions and their applicability to design problems.

Download or read book Project Management written by Harold Kerzner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Ninth Edition of the industry-leading project management "bible" applies its streamlined approach to new, authoritative coverage aligned with the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI®'s PMBOK®), the new mandatory source of training for the Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification Exam. Written by one of the best-known authorities on the subject, this extraordinary edition gives a profound understanding of project management. Content from this book is available as an online continuing professional education course at http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-320255.html#intro_pm. WileyCPE courses are available on demand, 24 hours a day, and are approved by the American Institute of Architects. (PMBOK, PMP, Project Management Professional, and CAPM are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)

Download or read book The Illusion of Control written by Mario Vanhoucke and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprehensively assesses the growing importance of project data for project scheduling, risk analysis and control. It discusses the relevance of project data for both researchers and professionals, and illustrates why the collection, processing and use of such data is not as straightforward as most people think. The theme of this book is known in the literature as data-driven project management and includes the discussion of using computer algorithms, human intuition, and project data for managing projects under risk. The book reviews the basic components of data-driven project management by summarizing the current state-of-the-art methodologies, including the latest computer and machine learning algorithms and statistical methodologies, for project risk and control. It highlights the importance of artificial project data for academics, and describes the specific requirements such data must meet. In turn, the book discusses a wide variety of statistical methods available to generate these artificial data and shows how they have helped researchers to develop algorithms and tools to improve decision-making in project management. Moreover, it examines the relevance of project data from a professional standpoint and describes how professionals should collect empirical project data for better decision-making. Finally, the book introduces a new approach to data collection, generation, and analysis for creating project databases, making it relevant for academic researchers and professional project managers alike.

Download or read book Introduction to Operations Research written by Gupta, Prem Kumar/ Hira D.S. & Kamboj Aarti and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOR STUDENTS OF COMMERCE,MANAGEMENT, ACCOUNTANCY, AND ECONOMICS