The planning phase of every construction project is entangled with multiple and occasionally conflicting criteria which need to be optimized simultaneously. Multi-criterion decision-making (MCDM) approaches can aid decision-makers in selecting the most appropriate solution among numerous potential Pareto optimal solutions. An evidential reasoning (ER) approach was applied for the first time in ...

During the construction phase, participants in a multi-contract project acquire external real-time scheduling information from other involved parties and use this to make appropriate decisions in regard to project control. There are two major obstacles to project participants gaining efficient access to external information in a distributed data environment: (1) the variety of data structures t...

CRIBA is a project that aims at industrializing thermal renovation processes of buildings. It consists in designing and configuring make-to-order insulated panels that will be installed on the external facade of the buildings to meet the thermal renovation objectives. Our study provides an optimization model that comprehensively plans supply chain network, which delivers insulated panels to the...

Preemption in multi-mode Resource-constrained project scheduling problem Zahra Zare* Department of Industrial Engineering Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran Postal Code: 71767-13763, Unit 3, No 142, 6 Alley, South Bahonar St., Shiraz, Iran Abdulreza Naddaf Department of Management Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Maysam Ashrafzadeh Department of Industrial Engineering Najaf...

Many scheduling problems in industry practice are considered as Decentralized Resource-Constrained Multi-Project Scheduling Problem (DRCMPSP). Given its characteristics, the problem must be solved in a decentralized manner while respecting information privacy of projects. However, existing approaches fail in satisfying these requirements, and encounter difficulties in dealing with large cases. ...

Human resource is a key factor for IT new product development. Considering multi-skilled employees in IT Project Portfolio Scheduling, a mixed integer nonlinear programming model with three optimization objectives is proposed from the view of project or product managers. The three objectives are to maximize the increments of skill efficiency values for all multi-skilled employees, to minimize R...

The South-to-North Water Diversion Eastern Route Project (SNWDERP) of China is a large inter-basin water transfer project. It is an extremely complex process management of water resources allocation and scheduling for such a multi-basin, multisource, multi-objective complex engineering systems. The SNWDERP is difficult to accurately construct the mathematical model because this kind of complex ...

Cross-enterprise project is the main implementation form in multi enterprises collaborative production environment. Minimizing the risk of failure and tardiness caused by the uncertainty of partner’s resources in partner selection is the key problem to ensure success in Cross-enterprise project. In this paper, considering the factors and constraints of sub-project processing times, precedence o...

This paper reports on a new solution approach for the well-known multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem (MMRCPSP). This problem type aims at the selection of a single activity mode from a set of available modes in order to construct a precedence and a (renewable and non-renewable) resource feasible project schedule with a minimal makespan. The problem type is known to be NPh...