A survey of variants and extensions of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Hartmann, Sönke ^a   Briskorn, Dirk ^b,c  

^a HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Modeling; Networks; Project scheduling; Resource constraints; Temporal constraints

Indexed keywords

BASIC MODELS; HEURISTIC SCHEDULING; MAKESPAN; MINIMAL AND MAXIMAL TIME LAGS; MODELING NETWORKS; MULTIPLE MODES; MULTIPLE PROJECTS; NET PRESENT VALUE; PRECEDENCE RELATIONS; PROJECT SCHEDULING; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED PROJECT SCHEDULING PROBLEM; STANDARD PROBLEMS; TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS;

FLOW MEASUREMENT; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SURVEYS;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 77953872383     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2009.11.005     Document Type: Review

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