Using resource scarceness characteristics to solve the multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem
Van Petegem, P. Vanhoucke, Mario
Van Petegem, P.
Vanhoucke, Mario
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2011
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Journal of Heuristics
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705
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In the past decades, resource parameters have been introduced in project scheduling literature to measure the scarceness of resources of a project instance. In this paper, we incorporate these resource scarceness parameters in the search process to solve the multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem, in which multiple execution modes are available for each activity in the project. Therefore, we propose a scatter search algorithm, which is executed with different improvement methods, each tailored to the specific characteristics of different renewable and nonrenewable resource scarceness values. Computational results prove the effectiveness of the improvement methods and reveal that the procedure is among the best performing competitive algorithms in the open literature.
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Project Management