A Survey of Multi-Agent Methods for Solving Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problems

Abstract

In recent years, with the rapid increase in the complexity of project management, most traditional models for solving resource constrained project scheduling problems (RCPSP) can't handle real-world project scheduling well, thus experts and scholars have developed several multi-agent based RCPSP models. In this paper, we first point out the advantage of multi-agent system in solving RCPSP. Then, we review representative multi-agent methods on resource constrained project scheduling. Finally, we propose some future research directions of the multi-agent methods solving these problems.