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On the integration of diverging material flows into resource‐constrained project scheduling

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  • Gehring, Marco
  • Volk, Rebekka
  • Schultmann, Frank

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This study deals with an extension of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) by constraints on material flows released during the execution of project activities. These constraints arise from limited processing capacities for materials and maximum inventories of intermediate storage facilities. Production scheduling problems with converging material flows have been studied extensively. However, this is the first project scheduling problem integrating diverging material flows typically observed in dismantling projects, e.g., building deconstruction, power plant decommissioning, or battery/car decommissioning. Diverging material flows do not directly impact the project planning but only impose delays in the case of congestion. We model material flows by using operations that represent the processing of materials, and cumulative resources that represent storage facilities. As a method for efficiently generating starting solutions, we propose a schedule generation scheme tailored to the particular precedence structure of such problems. Furthermore, we extensively study the schedule generation scheme’s performance on generated test instances and compare it to the constraint programming solver IBM ILOG CP Optimizer. It turns out that the solution quality strongly depends on the employed model and that neither of the two solution methods is generally superior.

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  • Gehring, Marco & Volk, Rebekka & Schultmann, Frank, 2022. "On the integration of diverging material flows into resource‐constrained project scheduling," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(3), pages 1071-1087.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:303:y:2022:i:3:p:1071-1087
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2022.03.047
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