Handbook on Project Management and Scheduling Vol.1

✍ Scribed by Christoph Schwindt, Jürgen Zimmermann (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 691
• Series: International Handbooks on Information Systems
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects. Projects come in many forms, often taking considerable time and consuming a large amount of resources. The management and scheduling of projects represents a challenging task, and project performance may have a considerable impact on an organization's competitiveness.

This handbook presents state-of-the-art approaches to project management and scheduling. More than sixty contributions written by leading experts in the field provide an authoritative survey of recent developments. The book serves as a comprehensive reference, both, for researchers and project management professionals.

The handbook consists of two volumes. Volume 1 is devoted to single-modal and multi-modal project scheduling. Volume 2 presents multi-project problems, project scheduling under uncertainty and vagueness, managerial approaches and a separate part on applications, case studies and information systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-l
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Shifts, Types, and Generation Schemes for Project Schedules....Pages 3-16
Mixed-Integer Linear Programming Formulations....Pages 17-41
Lower Bounds on the Minimum Project Duration....Pages 43-55
Metaheuristic Methods....Pages 57-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Lower Bounds and Exact Solution Approaches....Pages 77-111
A Precedence Constraint Posting Approach....Pages 113-133
A Satisfiability Solving Approach....Pages 135-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Time-Varying Resource Requirements and Capacities....Pages 163-176
Storage Resources....Pages 177-189
Continuous Resources....Pages 191-202
Partially Renewable Resources....Pages 203-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Integer Preemption Problems....Pages 231-250
Continuous Preemption Problems....Pages 251-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Exact and Heuristic Methods for the Resource-Constrained Net Present Value Problem....Pages 299-318
Exact Methods for the Resource Availability Cost Problem....Pages 319-338
Heuristic Methods for the Resource Availability Cost Problem....Pages 339-359
Exact Methods for Resource Leveling Problems....Pages 361-387
Heuristic Methods for Resource Leveling Problems....Pages 389-407
Front Matter....Pages 409-409
Theoretical and Practical Fundamentals....Pages 411-427
Goal Programming for Multi-Objective Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling....Pages 429-442
Front Matter....Pages 443-443
Overview and State of the Art....Pages 445-490
The Multi-Mode Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem....Pages 491-511
The Multi-Mode Capital-Constrained Net Present Value Problem....Pages 513-532
The Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with Work-Content Constraints....Pages 533-544
Front Matter....Pages 545-545
A Modeling Framework for Project Staffing and Scheduling Problems....Pages 547-564
Integrated Column Generation and Lagrangian Relaxation Approach for the Multi-Skill Project Scheduling Problem....Pages 565-586
Benders Decomposition Approach for Project Scheduling with Multi-Purpose Resources....Pages 587-601
Mixed-Integer Linear Programming Formulation and Priority-Rule Methods for a Preemptive Project Staffing and Scheduling Problem....Pages 603-617
Front Matter....Pages 619-619
The Discrete Time-Cost Tradeoff Problem with Irregular Starting Time Costs....Pages 621-638
Generalized Discrete Time-Cost Tradeoff Problems....Pages 639-658
Back Matter....Pages 659-663

✦ Subjects

Project Management; Operation Research/Decision Theory; IT in Business