Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/147603 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
Manuskripte aus den Instituten für Betriebswirtschaftslehre der Universität Kiel No. 520
Publisher: 
Universität Kiel, Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Kiel
Abstract: 
For most computationally intractable problems there exists no heuristic that is equally effective on all instances. Rather, any given heuristic may do well on some instances but will do worse on others. Indeed, even the 'best' heuristics will be dominated by others on at least some subclasses of instances. It thus seems worthwhile to identify - for each instance anew - a heuristic that is appropriate for the instance at hand, instead of applying always the same algorithm, regardless of its suitability. Adaptive control schemes attempt to do this with iterative algorithms by dynamically exploiting the experience gained in earlier iterations to guide the underlying algorithm in later iterations. In a recent study, several adaptive control schemes have been evaluated on one of the most fundamental scheduling problems, the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP). With this contribution, we intend to complement that research by results on a substantially more general problem, viz. the RCPSP under partially renewable resources. This new resource concept allows to formulate a variety of temporal and logical relations between scheduling objects, and is thus of interest in many practical settings pertaining to time-tabling and manpower scheduling.
Subjects: 
PROJECT SCHEDULING
PARTIALLY RENEWABLE RESOURCES
HEURISTICS
LOCAL SEARCH
CONTROL SCHEMES
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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