The impact of various activity assumptions on the lead time and resource utilization of resource-constrained projects

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 140-154

  Vanhoucke, Mario ^a,b   Debels, Dieter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Lead time minimization; Project scheduling; Resource constraints

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING;

LEAD TIME MINIMIZATION; PROJECT SCHEDULING; RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS; RESOURCE UTILIZATION;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 36048993713     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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