A note on the paper ‘Resource-constrained project scheduling: Notation, classification, models and methods’ by Brucker et al

The great variety of project scheduling problems studied in the ever growing literature motivated the recent development of classification schemes. In a recent paper, Brucker et al. make the claim that, so far, no classification scheme exists which is compatible with what is commonly accepted in machine scheduling and introduce a new classification. In this note, we critically review major shortcomings of the suggested scheme which place heavy limitations on its potential use.