The resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) is a well-known that has attracted attention since several decades. Despite the rapid progress of exact and (meta-)heuristic procedures, can still not be solved to optimality for many instances relatively small size. Due known complexity, researchers have proposed fast efficient meta-heuristic solution procedures solve near optimality....

The Cheddar project deals with real time scheduling theory. Many industrial projects do not perform performance analysis with real time scheduling theory even if the demand for the use of this theory is large. The Cheddar project investigates why real time scheduling theory is not used and how its usability can be increased. The Cheddar project was launched at the University of Brest in 2002. T...

Traditionally, project scheduling and material planning have been treated independently. In this research, a mixed integer programming model is presented to integrate project scheduling and materials ordering problems. The goal is to minimize the total material holding and ordering costs. In addition, an efficient metaheuristic algorithm is proposed to solve the model. The proposed algorithm is...

Previous research in project scheduling has been primarily focusing on providing efficient solution procedures in a deterministic scheduling environment. In reality, however, project manager is challenged by the conflict between the dynamic and evolving nature of project information. In addition, the amount of data volume and complicated relationships among constraints make the understanding of...

The science of construction scheduling has gained importance in the past few decades and has become the focal point of construction management practitioners. Scheduling involves listing of a project's milestones, activities, and deliverables with intended start and finish dates. These are estimated in terms of resource allocation, budget and duration. Resource limits (manpower, machinery, mater...

In this paper the multiple projects resourceconstrained project scheduling problem is considered. Several projects are to be scheduled simultaneously with sharing several kinds of limited resources in this problem. Each project contains non-preemptive and deterministic duration activities which compete limited resources under resources and precedence constraints. Moreover, there are the due dat...

this paper presents a multi-objective resource-constrained project scheduling problem with positive and negative cash flows. the net present value (npv) maximization and making span minimization are this study objectives. and since this problem is considered as complex optimization in np-hard context, we present a mathematical model for the given problem and solve three evolutionary algorithms;...

Software project planning is becoming more complicated and important as the size of software project grows. Many approaches have been proposed to help project managers by providing optimal staffing and scheduling in terms of minimizing the salary cost or duration. Unfortunately, the software quality, another critical factor in software project planning, is largely overlooked in previous work. I...