β Scribed by Dr. Ulrich Dorndorf (auth.)
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Project Scheduling is concerned with the allocation of scarce resources over time. The rich optimisation models with time windows that are treated in this book cover a multitude of practical decision problems arising in diverse application areas such as construction engineering or make-to-order production planning.
The book shows how Constraint Propagation techniques from Artificial Intelligence can be successfully combined with Operations Research methods for developing powerful exact and heuristic solution algorithms for a very general class of scheduling problems. Example applications demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Optimisation Model....Pages 7-18
Constraint Propagation....Pages 19-30
Consistency Tests....Pages 31-65
A Branch-and-Bound Algorithm....Pages 67-101
Multi-Mode Extension of the Branch-and-Bound Algorithm....Pages 103-108
Applications in Airport Operations Management....Pages 109-141
Summary and Conclusions....Pages 143-146
Back Matter....Pages 147-166
Organization/Planning; Operation Research/Decision Theory; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
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