Article ID: | iaor19991151 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 82 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 1 |
End Page Number: | 8 |
Publication Date: | Aug 1998 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Wallace Stein W., Hallefjord sa |
Keywords: | timetabling |
In project planning and control, it is of vital importance to take into account that different categories of resources have different work patterns. Algorithms for time analysis, resource smoothing and resource scheduling are almost always presented as if this has no importance. Practical planning tools, however, have different work patterns as a natural part of the data. In this paper, we discuss modelling aspects of introducing work patterns.