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Artificial Projects

In: The Illusion of Control

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  • Mario Vanhoucke

    (Ghent University)

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).

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  • Mario Vanhoucke, 2023. "Artificial Projects," Management for Professionals, in: The Illusion of Control, chapter 0, pages 189-223, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-031-31785-9_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-31785-9_11
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