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Recent results on resource-constrained project scheduling with time windows are reviewed. General temporal constraints (resulting from minimum and maximum time lags between project activities), several different types of scarce resources, and a large variety of time-based, financial, and resource-based objective functions are considered. Emphasis is placed on an order-based structural analysis of the feasible region of project scheduling problems and a classification and discussion of objective functions important to practice, which can be exploited for constructing efficient solution procedures. After those structural issues, methods for solving time-constrained project scheduling problems are proposed. Next, the resolution of conflicts for renewable, allocatable, synchronizing, changeover, and cumulative resources and thus the solving of corresponding resource-constrained project scheduling problems are studied. Finally, new applications of resource-constrained project scheduling are presented: factory pick-up of new cars and batch scheduling in process industries.
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Neumann, K., Schwindt, C., Zimmermann, J. (2006). Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling with Time Windows. In: Józefowska, J., Weglarz, J. (eds) Perspectives in Modern Project Scheduling. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 92. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-33768-5_15
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