Article ID: | iaor20082437 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 195 |
End Page Number: | 207 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2007 |
Journal: | Journal of Scheduling |
Authors: | Herroelen Willy, Demeulemeester Erik, Vonder Stijn Van de |
Keywords: | project management |
The vast majority of the project scheduling research efforts over the past several years have concentrated on the development of workable predictive baseline schedules, assuming complete information and a static and deterministic environment. During execution, however, a project may be subject to numerous schedule disruptions. Proactive–reactive project scheduling procedures try to cope with these disruptions through the combination of a proactive scheduling procedure for generating predictive baseline schedules that are hopefully robust in that they incorporate safety time to absorb anticipated disruptions with a reactive procedure that is invoked when a schedule breakage occurs during project execution. In this paper we discuss the results obtained by a large experimental design set up to evaluate several predictive–reactive resource-constrained project scheduling procedures under the composite objective of maximizing both the schedule stability and the timely project completion probability.