Vanhoucke, MarioDemeulemeester, ErikHerroelen, Willy2017-12-022017-12-022002http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12127/635The discrete time/cost trade-off problem assumes the duration of project activities to be discrete, non-increasing functions of the amount of a single non-renewable resource. The problem has been studied under three possible objectives. The so-called deadline problem involves the scheduling of project activities in order to minimize the total cost of the project while meeting a given deadline. The budget problem aims at minimizing the project duration without exceeding a given budget. A third objective involves the generation of the complete efficient time/cost profile over the set of feasible project durations. In this paper we describe a solution procedure for the deadline problem in which three special cases of time-switch constraints are involved.nlProgramme & Portfolio ManagementJournal of the Operational Research Society5152914073058614672