[HTML][HTML] Resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem: A survey

MG Sánchez, E Lalla-Ruiz, AF Gil, C Castro… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Project Management is becoming increasingly crucial in competitive environments such as
manufacturing and the service industries. The Resource-Constrained Multi-Project …

Multi-project scheduling: A benchmark analysis of metaheuristic algorithms on various optimisation criteria and due dates

D Bredael, M Vanhoucke - European Journal of Operational Research, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper reviews a set of ten existing metaheuristic solution procedures for the resource-
constrained multi-project scheduling problem. Algorithmic implementations are constructed …

A multi-agent based cooperative approach to decentralized multi-project scheduling and resource allocation

F Li, Z Xu, H Li - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
While project crashing is a prominent practice in project management and can be
approached by the well-known time–cost tradeoff problem (TCTP), the existing …

Combining Monte-Carlo and hyper-heuristic methods for the multi-mode resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem

S Asta, D Karapetyan, A Kheiri, E Özcan, AJ Parkes - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Multi-mode resource and precedence-constrained project scheduling is a well-known
challenging real-world optimisation problem. An important variant of the problem requires …

Resource-constrained multi-project scheduling: benchmark datasets and decoupled scheduling

R Van Eynde, M Vanhoucke - Journal of Scheduling, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, we propose a new dataset for the resource-constrained multi-project
scheduling problem and evaluate the performance of multi-project extensions of the single …

A generic heuristic for multi-project scheduling problems with global and local resource constraints (RCMPSP)

F Villafáñez, D Poza, A López-Paredes, J Pajares… - Soft Computing, 2019 - Springer
This paper presents a novel algorithm to solve the multi-project scheduling problem with
resource constraints (RCMPSP). The algorithm was tested with all the problems proposed in …

[HTML][HTML] On the project risk baseline: Integrating aleatory uncertainty into project scheduling

F Acebes, D Poza, JM Gonzalez-Varona… - Computers & Industrial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Obtaining a viable schedule baseline that meets all project constraints is one of the main
issues for project managers. The literature on this topic focuses mainly on methods to obtain …

A three-stage decomposition algorithm for decentralized multi-project scheduling under uncertainty

D Liu, Z Xu, F Li - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Decentralized management of multiple projects is a common practice in areas such as
maintenance service, supply chain management, and globalized manufacturing …

A two-stage approach with softmax scoring mechanism for a multi-project scheduling problem sharing multi-skilled staff

Y Yu, Z Xu, D Liu, S Zhao - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper studies a multi-project scheduling problem sharing multi-skilled staff (MSMPSP).
In a distributed decision-making environment, each project is independently scheduled by …

A combined multi-agent system for distributed multi-project scheduling problems

F Fu, H Zhou - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
A distributed multi-project scheduling problem is considered, in which several projects share
scarce resources, and a planning department (planner) is responsible for allocating the …