Researchers have begun to explore tools that allow multiple users to collaborate across multiple devices. One class of these tools allows users to simultaneously place and interact with information on shared displays. Unfortunately, there is a lack of good tasks to evaluate the effectiveness of these tools for information coordination in such scenarios. In this paper, we present collaborative j...

Resource-constraint multi-project scheduling is one of the most important topic in the field of project management. Most current works solve this problem based on an idea that multiple projects can be simply emerged into a super-project in a deterministic environment, regardless of the project priority and robustness of schedules. This paper discusses the RCMPSP with priority and formulates a d...

In project scheduling, many problems can arise when resource fluctuations are beyond acceptable limits. To overcome this, mathematical techniques have been developed for leveling resources. However, these produce a hard and inflexible approach in scheduling projects. The authors propose a simple resource leveling approach that can be used in scheduling projects with multi-mode execution activit...

The project resource leveling problem was proposed to smooth resource usage and reduce resource fluctuation, while the resource-constrained project scheduling problem focuses on minimizing the project duration with limited resources. Solving the two interrelated problems separately is unlikely to result in a globally optimum schedule. The few integrated optimization methods that have been devel...

Highway construction projects are one of the most important construction projects in the world. Therefore predicting the time of these kinds of projects is important. Basically highway projects are including few activities which are repeating along the horizontal direction. One of the best methods for scheduling these types of projects is linear scheduling method. The repetitive nature of the h...

In project portfolio management, the sources of change, task interactions, and the necessity for distributed planning should be considered. Most existing project methods have difficulties to produce desired results in highly dynamic multi-projects environments. In this paper, we present a project portfolio management approach with multi-agent. We described the types of agents used in project po...

This dissertation analyzes three scheduling problems motivated by real life situations. In many manufacturing and service industries, scheduling is an important decision-making process. Unfortunately, scheduling problems are often computationally challenging to solve, and even modeling a scheduling problem can be difficult. Chapter 2 considers single-facility non-preemptive scheduling problems ...

There can be different approaches to the management of resources within the context of multiproject scheduling problems. In general, approaches to multi-project scheduling problems consider the resources as a pool shared by all projects. On the other hand, when projects are distributed geographically or sharing resources between projects is not preferred, then this resource sharing policy may n...