A recurring problem in project management involves the allocation of scarce resources to the individual jobs comprising the project. In many situations such as audit scheduling, the resources correspond to individuals (skilled labour). This naturally leads to an assignment type project...

Managers of construction projects, maintenance activities, auditing contracts, software shops, etc. are frequently faced with the task of establishing a new project's due date, which must compete with other projects already in progress or expected (forecasted) to start in the future. The study...

The problem addressed in this paper is the scheduling of activities in a project to maximize net present value given cash inflows, outflows, and resource restrictions. Although optimization procedures exist for small problems of this type, they generally cannot solve large-scale problems and may...

A recurring problem in managing project activity involves the allocation of scarce resources to the individual activities comprising the project Resource conflict resolution decisions must be made whenever the concurrent demand for resources by the competing activities of a project exceeds...

This paper introduces methods for formulating and solving a general class of nonpreemptive resource-constrained project scheduling problems in which the duration of each job is a function of the resources committed to it. The approach is broad enough to permit the evaluation of numerous time or...

This paper deals with a class of project scheduling problems concerning the allocation of continuously divisible resources under conditions in which both total usage at every moment and total consumption over the period of project duration are constrained. Typical examples of such resources,...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a heuristic procedure for solving the resource-constrained project scheduling problem. Projects that involve completing a sequence of well defined activities, some of which can be done in parallel, often are characterized by capacity limitations on some...