Technical note: a single-pass heuristic for multi-mode single-resource constrained project scheduling
by Chuda Basnet
International Journal of Operational Research (IJOR), Vol. 26, No. 1, 2016

Abstract: We consider the resource-constrained project scheduling problem where only a single renewable resource is available. Such projects occur frequently in practice: such as construction projects with labour as the single resource or software projects with limited number of programmers. Usually, the manpower needs of activities in the project are estimated in units such as work-hours or work-days. Activity durations may be shortened by scheduling more resource. The contribution of this paper is a new heuristic, whose objective is to minimise the makespan of the project while staying within the constraints of available resource. The new heuristic is compared with existing heuristics. Computational results are presented.

Online publication date: Thu, 31-Mar-2016

The full text of this article is only available to individual subscribers or to users at subscribing institutions.

 
Existing subscribers:
Go to Inderscience Online Journals to access the Full Text of this article.

Pay per view:
If you are not a subscriber and you just want to read the full contents of this article, buy online access here.

Complimentary Subscribers, Editors or Members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Operational Research (IJOR):
Login with your Inderscience username and password:

Username:        Password:          Forgotten your password?

Want to subscribe?
A subscription gives you complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all articles in the previous three years (where applicable). See our Orders page to subscribe.

If you still need assistance, please email subs@inderscience.com