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The proactive and reactive resource-constrained project scheduling problem: the crucial role of buffer-based reactions

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  • Morteza Davari
  • Erik Demeulemeester

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The proactive and reactive resource-constrained project scheduling problem (PR-RCPSP), that has been introduced recently (Davari and Demeulemeester, 2016a), deals with activity duration uncertainty in a very unique way. The optimal solution to an instance of the PR-RCPSP is a proactive and reactive policy (PR-policy) that is a combination of a baseline schedule and a set of required transitions (reactions). In this research, we introduce two interesting classes of reactions, namely the class of selection-based reactions and the class of buffer-based reactions. We also discuss the theoretical relevance of these two classes of reactions. We run some computational results and report the contributions of the selection-based reactions and the buffer-based reactions in the optimal solution. The results suggest that although both selection-based reactions and buffer-based reactions contribute largely in the construction of the optimal PR-policy, the contribution of the buffer-based reactions is of much greater importance.

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  • Morteza Davari & Erik Demeulemeester, 2017. "The proactive and reactive resource-constrained project scheduling problem: the crucial role of buffer-based reactions," Working Papers of Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management, Leuven 583449, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management, Leuven.
    • Handle: RePEc:ete:kbiper:583449
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