Time-oriented branch-and-bound algorithm for resource-constrained project scheduling with generalized precedence constraints

Management Science

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1365-1384

  Dorndorf, Ulrich ^a   Pesch, Erwin ^a   Phan Huy, Toàn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED PROJECT SCHEDULING; TIME-ORIENTED BRANCH-AND-BOUND ALGORITHMS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 0034296143     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.46.10.1365.12272     Document Type: Article

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