Project management and scheduling

Abstract

Project management and scheduling are major issues for every company or organization facing rapid changes in its environment. Furthermore, project scheduling techniques have become indispensable for the attainment of effectiveness and efficiency of processes. This special issue collects 11 carefully selected papers which deal with optimization or decision analysis problems in the field of project management and scheduling. It covers a considerable range of topics, including solution methods for classical project scheduling problems (Bianco and Caramia, Kone et al., Lim et al., Van Peteghem and Vanhoucke), mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulations in order to solve scheduling problems with commercial MIP-solvers (Bianco and Caramia, Kone et al.), models and solution algorithms for multi-project scheduling (Besikci et al.), extensions of the classical resource-constrained project scheduling problem (Hartmann), models and solution approaches integrating decisions at different managerial levels such as selection and scheduling, or scheduling and control (Gutjahr and Froeschl, Hazir and Schmidt), risk in project management and scheduling (Tian and Demeulemeester, Artigues et al., Hazir and Schmidt, Gutjahr and Froeschl), and the assignment of resources to different stakeholders (Fink and Homberger, Besikci et al.). The operations research techniques employed include common approaches such as metaheuristics (Lim et al., Fink and Homberger, Van Peteghem and Vanhoucke, Besikci et al., Gutjahr