Modelling and solving multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling

Abstract

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.The resource-constrained project scheduling problem is a fundamental scheduling problem which comprises activities, scarce resources required by activities for their execution, and precedence relations between activities. The goal is to find an optimal schedule satisfying the resource and precedence constraints. These scheduling problems have many applications, ranging from production planning to project management. One of them concerns multi-modes of activities, in which each mode represents a different time-resource or resource-resource tradeoff option. In recent years, constraint programming technologies with nogood learning have pushed..