Resource Constrained Equipment Support Project Duration Optimization

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10.2991/lemcs-15.2015.177How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Resource constrained; Project duration optimiza-tion; Equipment support; Genetic algorithm; Network planning; Activity on arc network; Initialization; Operator

Abstract

Equipment support resources are the substantial prerequisites for decision-making in equipment support task. The renewable resources especially the scarce ones are usually limited in quantity. On account of the limited resource units that can be assigned to activities, the project completion time will most likely be greater than the duration that critical path method has originally calculated, without taking into account the resource usage limit. To ensure that the task will be completed within the scheduled task duration and to increase the feasibility of the decision making of an equipment support task, the task has to be scheduled under resource constraint, which belongs to resource constrained project schedule problem (RCPSP). Specific components such as initialization, crossover, mutation, and repairing operators, et al., of the genetic algorithms are designed to solve the problem. The efficiency of the adopted method is demonstrated by obtaining the optimal solutions to a benchmark instance with medium scale.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiancheng Wang
AU  - Ming Wei
AU  - Yaping Lü
PY  - 2015/07
DA  - 2015/07
TI  - Resource Constrained Equipment Support Project Duration Optimization
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Logistics, Engineering, Management and Computer Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 894
EP  - 898
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/lemcs-15.2015.177
DO  - 10.2991/lemcs-15.2015.177
ID  - Wang2015/07
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