A preemptive bound for the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem

Autor: Mohamed Haouari, Anis Kooli, Emmanuel Neron, Jacques Carlier
Přispěvatelé: Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Qatar University-Qatar University, Unité Recherche Opérationnelle pour l'Industrie (ROI), Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et Appliquée de Tours (LIFAT), Université de Tours (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Centre Val de Loire (INSA CVL), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Heuristique et Diagnostic des Systèmes Complexes [Compiègne] (Heudiasyc), Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Tours-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Centre Val de Loire (INSA CVL), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Journal of Scheduling
Journal of Scheduling, Springer Verlag, 2014, 17, pp.237-248. ⟨10.1007/s10951-013-0354-9⟩
ISSN: 1099-1425
1094-6136
Popis: International audience; The Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem is one of the most intensively investigated schedul- ing problems. It requires scheduling a set of interrelated activities, while considering precedence relationships, and limited renewable resources allocation. The objective is to minimize the project duration. We propose a new destructive lower bound for this challenging NP -hard problem. Starting from a previously suggested LP model, we propose several original valid inequalities that aim at tightening the model representation. These new inequalities are based on prece- dence constraints, incompatible activity subsets, and nonpre- emption constraints. We present the results of an extensive computational study that was carried out on 2,040 bench- mark instances of PSPLIB , with up to 120 activities, and that provide strong evidence that the new proposed lower bound exhibitsanexcellentperformance.Inparticular,wereportthe improvement of the best known lower bounds of 5 instances
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