The cumulative resource constraints of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) do not treat the resource demands as geometric rectangles, that is, activities are not necessarily assigned to the same resource units over their processing times. In spite of this fact, most papers on resource-constrained project scheduling mainly in the motivation phase use a strip packing of re...

PREFACE After having received my diploma from the Technische Universität Berlin in 1996, Rolf Möhring, the supervisor of my diploma thesis, offered me a research position in his group. At that time I was employed at a Berlin software company the head of which, Gert Scheschonk, strongly encouraged me to accept the offer. I accepted and in 1997 I began to work within a research initiative funded ...

In this paper, we present a new topic in connection with project scheduling. Since a limited work space can form a restriction to project scheduling problems, an efficient usage of these work spaces (or so-called spatial resources) is required to produce good project schedules. The requirement for the resource units of these spatial resources is in an adjacent manner (we cannot place a product ...