This title presents a large variety of models and algorithms dedicated to the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP), which aims at scheduling at minimal duration a set of activities subject to precedence constraints and limited resource availabilities.<br>In the first part, the sta
Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling: Models, Algorithms, Extensions and Applications
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- Publisher
- Wiley-ISTE
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
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- 292
- Category
- Library
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This title presents a large variety of models and algorithms dedicated to the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP), which aims at scheduling at minimal duration a set of activities subject to precedence constraints and limited resource availabilities.
In the first part, the standard variant of RCPSP is presented and analyzed as a combinatorial optimization problem. Constraint programming and integer linear programming formulations are given. Relaxations based on these formulations and also on related scheduling problems are presented. Exact methods and heuristics are surveyed. Computational experiments, aiming at providing an empirical insight on the difficulty of the problem, are provided.
The second part of the book focuses on several other variants of the RCPSP and on their solution methods. Each variant takes account of real-life characteristics which are not considered in the standard version, such as possible interruptions of activities, production and consumption of resources, cost-based approaches and uncertainty considerations.
The last part presents industrial case studies where the RCPSP plays a central part. Applications are presented in various domains such as assembly shop and rolling ingots production scheduling, project management in information technology companies and instruction scheduling for VLIW processor architectures.Content:
Chapter 1 The Resource?Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (pages 19β35): Christian Artigues
Chapter 2 Resource and Precedence Constraint Relaxation (pages 37β48): Emmanuel Neron
Chapter 3 Mathematical Programming Formulations and Lower Bounds (pages 49β62): Sophie Demassey
Chapter 4 Constraint Programming Formulations and Propagation Algorithms (pages 63β72): Philippe Laborie and Wim Nuijten
Chapter 5 Branching Schemes for Branch?and?Bound (pages 73β85): Emmanuel Neron
Chapter 6 Heuristics (pages 87β105): Christian Artigues and David Rivreau
Chapter 7 Benchmark Instance Indicators and Computational Comparison of Methods (pages 107β135): Christian Artigues, Oumar Kone, Pierre Lopez, Marcel Mongeau, Emmanuel Neron and David Rivreau
Chapter 8 Preemptive Activities (pages 137β147): Jean Damay
Chapter 9 Multi?Mode and Multi?Skill Project Scheduling Problem (pages 149β160): Odile Bellenguez?Morineau and Emmanuel Neron
Chapter 10 Project Scheduling with Production and Consumption of Resources: How to Build Schedules (pages 161β170): Jacques Carlier, Aziz Moukrim and Huang Xu
Chapter 11 Activity Insertion Problem in a RCPSP with Minimum and Maximum Time Lags (pages 171β190): Christian Artigues and Cyril Briand
Chapter 12 Reactive Approaches (pages 191β201): Christelle Gueret and Narendra Jussien
Chapter 13 Proactive?reactive Project Scheduling (pages 203β211): Erik Demeulemeester, Willy Herroelen and Roel Leus
Chapter 14 RCPSP with Financial Costs (pages 213β226): Laure?Emmanuelle Drezet
Chapter 15 Assembly Shop Scheduling (pages 227β242): Michel Gourgand, Nathalie Grangeon and Sylvie Norre
Chapter 16 Employee Scheduling in an IT Company (pages 243β255): Laure?Emmanuelle Drezet and Jean?Charles Billaut
Chapter 17 Rolling Ingots Production Scheduling (pages 257β266): Christoph Schwindt and Norbert Trautmann
Chapter 18 Resource?Constrained Modulo Scheduling (pages 267β277): Benoit Dupont de Dinechin, Christian Artigues and Sadia Azem
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