A multi-mode project scheduling problem with a single nonrenewable resource

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Endüstri Mühendisliği Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2017

Öğrenci: CANSU ALTINTAŞ

Danışman: MERAL AZİZOĞLU

Özet:

In this thesis, we consider a multi-mode project scheduling problem with a single nonrenewable resource. We assume that the resource is released in pre-specified times at pre-specified quantities and the resource is consumed at activity completions. The activities can be processed at different modes where a mode is defined by a processing time and a resource requirement amount. Our problem is to select the modes and timings of the activities so as to minimize the project completion time. We develop a mixed integer linear model and present a branch and bound algorithm. The results of our experiments have revealed that the mathematical model can handle only small-sized problem instances with up to 20 tasks and branch and bound algorithm can solve problem instances with up to 100 tasks for some resource release profiles.