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Annals of Operations Research

, Volume 274, Issue 1–2, pp 187–210 | Cite as

Important classes of reactions for the proactive and reactive resource-constrained project scheduling problem

  • Morteza DavariEmail author
  • Erik Demeulemeester
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Abstract

The proactive and reactive resource-constrained project scheduling problem (PR-RCPSP), that has been introduced recently (Davari and Demeulemeester, 2017), deals with activity duration uncertainty in a very unique way. The optimal solution to an instance of the PR-RCPSP is a proactive and reactive policy (PR-policy) that is a combination of a baseline schedule and a set of required transitions (reactions). In this research, we introduce two interesting classes of reactions, namely the class of selection-based reactions and the class of buffer-based reactions, the latter in fact being a subset of the class of selection-based reactions. We also discuss the theoretical relevance of these two classes of reactions. We run some computational results and report the contributions of the selection-based reactions and the buffer-based reactions in the optimal solution. The results suggest that although both selection-based reactions and buffer-based reactions contribute largely in the construction of the optimal PR-policy, the contribution of the buffer-based reactions is of much greater importance. These results also indicate that the contributions of non-selection-based reactions (reactions that are not selection-based) and selection-but-not-buffer-based reactions (selection-based reactions that are not buffer-based) are very limited.

Keywords

Proactive and reactive RCPSP Stochastic durations Buffer-based reactions Proactive and reactive policies 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.CODeS, Department of Computer Science & imec-ITECKU Leuven KULAKKortrijkBelgium
  2. 2.Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management, Research Center for Operations Management, Faculty of Business and EconomicsKU LeuvenLouvainBelgium

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