During the past several years, a large number of studies have been conducted in the area of sharable resource constrained scheduling problems. Intelligent manufacturing planning and scheduling based on meta-heuristic methods, such as the simulated annealing and particle swarm optimization, have become common tools for finding satisfactory solutions within reasonable computational times in real ...

in this paper, we consider scheduling of project networks under minimization of total weighted resource tardiness penalty costs. in this problem, we assume constrained resources are renewable and limited to very costly machines and tools which are also used in other projects and are not accessible in all periods of time of a project. in other words, there is a dictated ready date as well as a d...

This paper considers the relocation problem arising from public re-development projects cast as a two-machine flowshop scheduling problem. In such a project, some buildings need to be torn down and re-constructed. The two processes of tearing down and re-constructing each building are often viewed as a single operation. However, under certain circumstances, the re-construction process, i.e., th...