this paper presents a multi-objective resource-constrained project scheduling problem with positive and negative cash flows. the net present value (npv) maximization and making span minimization are this study objectives. and since this problem is considered as complex optimization in np-hard context, we present a mathematical model for the given problem and solve three evolutionary algorithms;...

Cooperative problem solving with resource constraints are important in practical multi-agent systems. Resource constraints are necessary to handle practical problems including distributed task scheduling with limited resource availability. A dedicated framework called Resource Constrained DCOP (RCDCOP) has recently been proposed. RCDCOP models objective functions and resource constraints separa...

In along-track synthetic aperture radar systems, measurements from multiple phase centers can be used to remove bright stationary clutter in order to detect and estimate moving targets in the scene. The effectiveness of this procedure can be improved by increasing the number of antennas in the system. However, due to computational and communication constraints, it may be prohibitive to use a la...

Research on specification and scheduling of workflows has concentrated on temporal and causality constraints, which specify existence and order dependencies among tasks. However, another set of constraints that specify resource allocation is also equally important. The resources in a workflow environment are agents such as person, machine, software, etc. that execute the task. Execution of a ta...

This paper concerns the problem of resource reasoning in planning. It defines formally a constraint satisfaction problem, the Time and Resource Problem (T RP), in which resource reasoning is seen as integrated with temporal reasoning. Two propagation techniques are introduced that reason about resource constraints in the T RP framework. The Profile Propagation technique, similar to time-tabling...

The resource-constrained project scheduling problem is to find a schedule that minimizes the project duration subject to precedence relations and resource constraints. To further account for economic aspects of the project, one may add an objective of cash nature to the problem. In addition, dynamic nature and variations in real world are known to introduce uncertainties into data. Therefore, t...

Resource constraints frequently complicate multi-agent planning problems. Existing algorithms for resource-constrained, multi-agent planning problems rely on the assumption that the constraints are deterministic. However, frequently resource constraints are themselves subject to uncertainty from external influences. Uncertainty about constraints is especially challenging when agents must execut...