Planning projects with scarce resources: Yesterday, today and tomorrow's research challenges

摘要

This paper is an invited request to describe the main research challenges in the domain of resource-constrained project scheduling.The paper is split up in three parts.In today's challenges,research endeavors that have received a significant,but still not enough,attention have been described.In tomorrow's research challenges,some promising research avenues for future research have been given.Finally,in yesterday's challenge,a research topic that started decades ago,is said to have still a huge potential in tomorrow's research agenda.This paper does not intend to give a full literature overview,nor a summary of all possible research paths.Instead,it is inspired from the author's experience in academic research and practical consultancy and it serves as a personal opinion on a non-exhaustive set of promising research avenues,rather than giving a full literature-based advice for future research directions.