Collaborative evolutionary multi-project resource scheduling

The Trade Off Between Diversity and Quality for Multi-objective Workforce Scheduling

“…However, this is a problem that the user is more familiar with and which is likely to yield better results than choosing objective weights in many cases. Ways in which the users ability to choose between schedules for the RCPSP such as those considered in Shackleford and Corne [17] and there approaches could be useful here.…”

Implementation issues for an interactive evolutionary computation system

“…Often this is fairly straight-forward (for example when designing a bridge the calculations for strength and stiffness can be used to determine the fitness based on the geometry), but in some cases (such as the Programme Management system discussed in this paper [1]) the fitness is derived from a wide range of parameters based on the project manager's knowledge and experience.…”

“…The issues found and resolved when implementing an Interactive User Interface to the Evolutionary Algorithm for the system (described in [1]) are outlined in the following sections: Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.…”

Metaheuristic design pattern

“…For instance, rank-based presentation has been used for large, real-world resource constrained multipleproject scheduling problems involving complex quality criteria [4]. Up to 25 evolving schedules are presented (as Gannt charts or Resource profiles) for ranking which enables the search to be guided by both the standard schedule quality criteria and also the master scheduler's non-formalized knowledge and experience.…”