• Title of article

    Discrete time/costtrade-offproblem:Adecomposition-basedsolutionalgorithm for thebudgetversion

  • Author/Authors

    O¨ ncu¨ Haz r، نويسنده , , MohamedHaouaric، نويسنده , , d، نويسنده , , ErdalErelb، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    649
  • To page
    655
  • Abstract
    This paperinvestigatesthebudgetvariantofthediscretetime/costtrade-offproblem(DTCTP).This multi-mode projectschedulingproblemrequiresassigningmodestotheactivitiesofaprojectsothat the totalcompletiontimeisminimizedandthebudgetandtheprecedenceconstraintsaresatisfied. This problemisoftenencounteredinpracticeastimelycompletionoftheprojectswithoutexceeding the budgetiscrucial.ThecontributionofthispapertotheliteraturesistodescribeaneffectiveBenders Decomposition-based exactalgorithmtosolvetheDTCTPinstancesofrealisticsizes.AlthoughBenders Decomposition oftenexhibitsaveryslowconvergence,wehaveincludedseveralalgorithmicfeaturesto enhance theperformanceoftheproposedtailoredapproach.Computationalresultsattesttotheefficacy of theproposedalgorithm,whichcansolvelarge-scaleinstancestooptimality.
  • Keywords
    Project scheduling , Benders decomposition , Time/cost trade-off
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    927678