Project scheduling is the next step once project planning completed. This requires knowledge and depth of activities, dependencies between activities and, duration activities. Creating designing a realistic schedule biggest challenges manager faces. There are some common problems that can be impact towards delay or performance: Assigning Resource Constraint, Managing Unknown Change Estimating T...

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...

This contribution presents a scheduling domain ontology, named SchedOnto, devised to tackle the formal specification of batch scheduling problems, as well as integration issues associated with the scheduling function. More specifically, this paper describes the ontological engineering approach that led to SchedOnto. The ontology characteristics along with its development process are presented, ...

The English Department of Health's End of Life Care Strategy suggests that suboptimal end-of-life care in care homes results from inadequate training of staff at all levels. This article reports on one hospice's pilot project that addressed the question, 'Does a competency development package provide a way in which the hospice can support improved end-of-life care in care homes in a sustainable...

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...