Artificial Projects

Mario Vanhoucke
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Mario Vanhoucke: Ghent University

Chapter Chapter 11 in The Illusion of Control, 2023, pp 189-223 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter tells the story of the quest to generate various databases of artificial projects in academia. While it is generally believed that generating such artificial projects is easy and straightforward, it will be shown that the opposite is true. The history of artificial project data generation began with the collection of a series of artificial projects from academic papers but soon turned into a search to bring a clear and well-designed structure to the generation process. Different datasets were constructed for various research purposes using data generators, complexity metrics, and (super)computers. One of them is creating the best possible schedule for the well-known resource-constrained project scheduling problem, one of the most challenging problems in the project planning community. The chapter’s story is set in rainy Ghent (Belgium) and sunny Lisbon (Portugal).

Keywords: Artificial projects; Data generators; Project scheduling; Resource constraints (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-31785-9_11

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