Comparison of the resource allocation cababilities of project management software packages in resource constrained project scheduling problems

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2007
Hekimoğlu, Özge
In this study, results of a comparison on benchmark test problems are presented to investigate the performance of Primavera V.4.1 with its two resource allocation priority rules and MS Project 2003. Resource allocation capabilities of the packages are measured in terms of deviation from the upper bound of the minimum makespan. Resource constrained project scheduling problem instances are taken from PSPLIB which are generated under a factorial design from ProGen. Statistical tests are applied to the results for investigating the significance effectiveness of the parameters.

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Ö. Hekimoğlu, “Comparison of the resource allocation cababilities of project management software packages in resource constrained project scheduling problems,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.