A Column Generation Based Destructive Lower Bound for Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problems

In this paper we present a destructive lower bound for a number of resource constrained project scheduling (RCPS) problems, which is based on column generation. We first look at the problem with only one resource. We show how to adapt the procedure by Van den Akker et al. [1] for the problem of minimizing maximum lateness on a set of identical, parallel machines such that it can be used to solve these RCPS problems. We then consider a number of variants of the RCPS problem with one or more resources and show how these can be solved by our approach. Because of the close relation between RCPS and the cumulative constraint in constraint programming, our method can be used as an efficient filtering algorithm for the cumulative constraint as well. 1980 Mathematics Subject Classification (Revision 1991): 90B35. Keywords and Phrases: resource constrained project scheduling, cumulative constraint, linear programming, column generation, generalized precedence constraints.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CPAIOR
• Authors: J. M. van den Akker, Guido Diepen, J. A. Hoogeveen
• Keywords: Column Generation, CPAIOR 2007, Cumulative Constraint, Resource Constrained Project