Handbook on Project Management and Scheduling Vol. 1

Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects. Projects come in many forms, often taking considerable time and consuming a large amount of resources. The management and scheduling of projects represents a challenging task, and project performance may have a considerable impact on an organization’s competitiveness.

This handbook presents state-of-the-art approaches to project management and scheduling. More than sixty contributions written by leading experts in the field provide an authoritative survey of recent developments. The book serves as a comprehensive reference, both, for researchers and project management professionals.

The handbook consists of two volumes. Volume 1 is devoted to single-modal and multi-modal project scheduling. Volume 2 presents multi-project problems, project scheduling under uncertainty and vagueness, managerial approaches and a separate part on applications, case studies and information systems.

Table of Contents

Part I The Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem
Chapter 1 Shifts, Types, and Generation Schemes for Project Schedules
Chapter 2 Mixed-Integer Linear Programming Formulations
Chapter 3 Lower Bounds on the Minimum Project Duration
Chapter 4 Metaheuristic Methods

Part II The Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with Generalized Precedence Relations
Chapter 5 Lower Bounds and Exact Solution Approaches
Chapter 6 A Precedence Constraint Posting Approach
Chapter 7 A Satisfiability Solving Approach

Part III Alternative Resource Constraints in Project Scheduling
Chapter 8 Time-Varying Resource Requirements and Capacities
Chapter 9 Storage Resources
Chapter 10 Continuous Resources
Chapter 11 Partially Renewable Resources

Part IV Preemptive Project Scheduling
Chapter 12 Integer Preemption Problems
Chapter 13 Continuous Preemption Problems

Part V Non-Regular Objectives in Project Scheduling
Chapter 14 Exact and Heuristic Methods for the Resource-Constrained Net Present Value Problem
Chapter 15 Exact Methods for the Resource Availability Cost Problem
Chapter 16 Heuristic Methods for the Resource Availability Cost Problem
Chapter 17 Exact Methods for Resource Leveling Problems
Chapter 18 Heuristic Methods for Resource Leveling Problems

Part VI Multi-Criteria Objectives in Project Scheduling
Chapter 19 Theoretical and Practical Fundamentals
Chapter 20 Goal Programming for Multi-Objective Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling
Chapter Part VII Multi-Mode Project Scheduling Problems
Chapter 21 Overview and State of the Art
Chapter 22 The Multi-Mode Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem
Chapter 23 The Multi-Mode Capital-Constrained Net Present Value Problem
Chapter 24 The Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with Work-Content Constraints

Part VIII Project Staffing and Scheduling Problems
Chapter 25 A Modeling Framework for Project Staffing and Scheduling Problems
Chapter 26 Integrated Column Generation and Lagrangian Relaxation Approach for the Multi-Skill Project Scheduling Problem
Chapter 27 Benders Decomposition Approach for Project Scheduling with Multi-Purpose Resources
Chapter 28 Mixed-Integer Linear Programming Formulation and Priority-Rule Methods for a Preemptive Project Staffing and Scheduling Problem

Part IX Discrete Time-Cost Tradeoff Problems
Chapter 29 The Discrete Time-Cost Tradeoff Problem with Irregular Starting Time Costs
Chapter 30 Generalized Discrete Time-Cost Tradeoff Problems