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In the previous part, we have discussed the resource investment problem that occurs when we face a tight deadline T for a project. But even if we do not need to pay attention to providing a sufficient resource availability, meeting that deadline is a problem in some circumstances which will be described with the help of a small example as given in Figure 15.1 where, once more, the lengths of the boxes in the activity-on-node network represent the durations of the activities.

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Kimms, A. (2001). Crashing. In: Mathematical Programming and Financial Objectives for Scheduling Projects. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 38. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1453-4_15

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