The development of a robust resource constrained project scheduling framework

Abstract

The literature on resource constrained project scheduling attempts to schedule projects with deterministic activity durations subject to various objective functions and possible additional assumptions. During project execution, however, a project may be subject to considerable uncertainty. Such uncertainty may lead to the actual realized activity durations to substantially deviate from the durations that were initially estimated in the baseline schedule and cause a serious project overdue. This paper offers a framework that deals with the project scheduling problem from the start of a project through to the finish, and therefore provides a whole robust project scheduling strategy which is more tolerant to various uncertainties. Our framework combines the buffer sizing technique, proactive project scheduling approach and reactive project scheduling approach, which are usually implemented at different stages of a given project. The proposed scheduling framework constructed based on these approaches is tested using a large experimental design in order to detect the effectiveness of each procedure.

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