Article ID: | iaor19972502 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 48 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 34 |
End Page Number: | 43 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1997 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Salhi S. |
Keywords: | project management, simulation |
Constrained resources project management heuristics are analyzed and their performance is assessed related to well defined project types. Such results have shown that using the overall performance measure of a given heuristic can, in some situations, be misleading. An efficient heuristic, which combines resource and criticality factors is also proposed. Computational experiments on a set of 6120 networks varying in size from 45-666 activities, 3 resources, and under different network parameters are reported. The proposed heuristic outperforms the best existing dispatching rules in certain project classes and also on problem sets appearing in the literature.