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Decentralized Multi-Project Scheduling

In: Handbook on Project Management and Scheduling Vol. 2

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  • Andreas Fink

    (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität)

  • Jörg Homberger

    (Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart)

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with the decentralized resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem (DRCMPSP), which is characterized in that individual involved decision makers pursue individual goals, whereas some overall coordination mechanism is needed to resolve conflicts due to the interdependencies between multiple projects. The connection between activities from these projects may result from temporal and resource-orientated constraints. In general, there may be two kinds of autonomous decision makers, on the one hand those that control individual projects, and on the other hand those that control globally available resources. After providing a more detailed description of such kinds of problems and the resulting peculiarities of decentralized decision making, a classification of respective problem types is provided, which leads to related requirements for solution procedures. Overall, there are two basic solution approaches, namely auctions and negotiations. These methods are described in connection with a review of the related literature.

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  • Andreas Fink & Jörg Homberger, 2015. "Decentralized Multi-Project Scheduling," International Handbooks on Information Systems, in: Christoph Schwindt & Jürgen Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook on Project Management and Scheduling Vol. 2, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 685-706, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ihichp:978-3-319-05915-0_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05915-0_2
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    1. Liu, Ying & Zhou, Jing & Lim, Andrew & Hu, Qian, 2023. "A tree search heuristic for the resource constrained project scheduling problem with transfer times," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 304(3), pages 939-951.
    2. Fink, Andreas & Gerhards, Patrick, 2021. "Negotiation mechanisms for the multi-agent multi-mode resource investment problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 295(1), pages 261-274.
    3. Homberger, Jörg & Fink, Andreas, 2017. "Generic negotiation mechanisms with side payments – Design, analysis and application for decentralized resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problems," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 261(3), pages 1001-1012.
    4. Wuliang Peng & Jiali lin & Jingwen Zhang & Liangwei Chen, 2022. "A bi-objective hierarchical program scheduling problem and its solution based on NSGA-III," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 308(1), pages 389-414, January.
    5. Mohammad Rostami & Morteza Bagherpour, 2020. "A lagrangian relaxation algorithm for facility location of resource-constrained decentralized multi-project scheduling problems," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 20(2), pages 857-897, June.

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