Multi-mode resource leveling in projects with mode-dependent generalized precedence relations

摘要

In real-life project management, resource leveling is an important technique to ensure the effective use of resources, in which activities (a) can often be executed in alternative modes and (b) are constrained by precedence relations with minimum and maximum time lags that can be modeled using generalized precedence relations (GPRs). In addition, the values of the time lags tend to depend on activity modes. The resource leveling problem with multiple modes and mode-dependent GPRs (MRLP-GPR) is a generalization of the classic NP-hard resource leveling problem. To our knowledge, no literature exists regarding the MRLP-GPR.