Multi-Project Scheduling: Categorization of Heuristic Rules Performance

I. Kurtulus and E. W. Davis
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I. Kurtulus: Virginia Commonwealth University
E. W. Davis: University of Virginia

Management Science, 1982, vol. 28, issue 2, 161-172

Abstract: Application of heuristic solution procedures to the practical problem of project scheduling has previously been studied by numerous researchers. However, there is little consensus about their findings, and the practicing manager is currently at a loss as to which scheduling rule to use. Furthermore, since no categorization process was developed, it is assumed that once a rule is selected it must be used throughout the whole project. This research breaks away from this tradition by providing a categorization process based on two powerful project summary measures. The first measure identifies the location of the peak of total resource requirements and the second measure identifies the rate of utilization of each resource type. The performance of the rules are classified according to values of these two measures, and it is shown that a rule introduced by this research performs significantly better on most categories of projects.

Keywords: project management; research and development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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