A Conceptual Framework for Project Scheduling with Multi-Skilled Resources

DOI

10.2991/aiie-15.2015.103How to use a DOI?

Keywords

heuristics; multi skilled resources; project scheduling

Abstract

The success of a project depends, mostly, on the ability to create multi-skilled teams and to assign them to project’s tasks, without creating multi-tasking and over-allocation. In this respect, the Multi-skilled Work Force Scheduling Problem has attracted a great interest, both for academicals and practitioners. Unfortunately, most of the academic works produced so far, has not yet found its way into practice, mainly because of a complex and rigid mathematical formulation, which poses a serious constraint on the precision of the input data. To solve this criticality, we abandon the over optimistic idea of a global optimum and we propose a hierarchical framework that extends the well-known Dynamic Scheduling approach. The focus is on the resource assignment phase, with the objective to allocate multi-skilled resources in a quasi-optimal way, so as to assure project quality and a harmonious development of the workforce.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - F. Zammori
AU  - M. Bertolini
PY  - 2015/07
DA  - 2015/07
TI  - A Conceptual Framework for Project Scheduling with Multi-Skilled Resources
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 375
EP  - 378
SN  - 1951-6851
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DO  - 10.2991/aiie-15.2015.103
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