[PDF] Top 20 An Exact Bidirectional Approach to the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem

... the resource limits allow, subject to the condition on durations, then we should be able to pick up a duration, pack up for processing subsets of activities according to the condition, find all such induced states ... See full document

... x is a decision variable, which is equal to 1 if and only if, activity j is performed in mode m and finished at time t. Equation 1 represents the objective function that maximizes the net present value of a ... See full document

... Resource constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) is mainly investigated with the objective of either minimizing project makespan or maximizing project net present ... See full document

... The very nature of the precedence relation between an activity and its successors brings into play ‘either-or’ nature of the problem: either the activity is completed, hence its successors may start or it is not ... See full document

... The performance of DE depends on the dimensionality of the optimization problems. As the search space increases dimensionality, the cases increase the complexity of the problem exponentially. This increase in ... See full document

... Kim et al. [15] proposed a hybrid genetic algorithm with a fuzzy logic controller for RCMPSP with an objective of minimizing makespan and total tardiness penalty. Goncalves et al. [16] took an approach of a ... See full document

... that exact methods cannot solve problems with more than 20 tasks executed on three modes and highly ...the exact algorithm. Recently [5] splits the problem type into a mode assignment and a single ... See full document

... multi-mode resource constrained scheduling problem with positive cash flows (MRCPSP-PCF) is ...preventing resource over-allocation is ...the resource over-allocations that ... See full document

... to problem parameters ...based bidirectional planning ...the bidirectional plan- ning method, two partial schedules are produced by a forward SGS and a backward SGS, ...The bidirectional plan- ... See full document

... as exact, heuristics and meta-heuristics. Exact methods are the first class of RCPSP ...Several exact methods have been proposed by authors to solve the ...representative exact methods. ... See full document

... Resource constrained Project Scheduling Problem is a scheduling problem for scheduling project activities with precedence and resource ... See full document

... the resource- constrained project scheduling problem has been addressed by a great number of researchers ...Several exact procedures have been developed to solve the RCPSCP by a ... See full document

... non-preemptive resource-constrained project scheduling problem is considered in this ...the project data in order to speed up the ... See full document

... counting-based approach encourages/supports rapid explorations of ideas for new algorithms, however exclusive usage would discourage developing new practical methods of improving algorithm ...Runtime-based ... See full document

... Tables 10 and 11 report the papers sorted according to the date of publication. The four first columns are common with the previous tables , while the fifth and the sixth column present the average and the maximum CPU time ... See full document

... Valls et al. (2008) suggested a hybrid genetic algorithm with activity list representation and which makes use of forward– backward improvement of Valls et al. (2005). They developed a cross over scheme (Peak Crossover ... See full document

... CONCLUSION In this paper a novel approach of hybridizing simulated annealing and genetic algorithm is proposed to solve multi mode resource constrained project scheduling problem.. Paper[r] ... See full document

... the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP) has triggered a substantially significant issue among scheduling ...the project, maximize the Net Present Value ... See full document

... The resource usage profiles of an initial solution scheduled using PSS is shown on the top of ...the project duration is obtained in forward schedule, as shown in the last two tables of ...the exact ... See full document

... with resource constraints and stochastic activity durations [2, 13, ...for scheduling under ...the resource usage of each activity varies over time proportionally to its varying ...The problem ... See full document