Robust Scheduling with Logic-Based Benders Decomposition
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We study project scheduling at a large IT services delivery center in which there are unpredictable delays. We apply robust optimization to minimize tardiness while informing the customer of a reasonable worst-case completion time, based on empirically determined uncertainty sets. We introduce a new solution method based on logic-based Benders decomposition. We show that when the uncertainty set is polyhedral, the decomposition simplifies substantially, leading to a model of tractable size. Preliminary computational experience indicates that this approach is superior to a mixed integer programming model solved by state-of-the-art software.
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