The monograph deals with deterministic project scheduling with time windows for activities and with limited resources. In addition to project duration or makespan, a large number of mostly nonregular objective functions are considered, for example, net present value, earliness plus tardiness...

I: The Model and Methodology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Model -- 3. The Parameters and the Admissible Parameter Space -- 4. Analysis of Identification -- 5. A Remark on Estimation -- 6. An Example: Dynamic vs. Contemporaneous Models -- II: White-Noise Shock; White-Noise Exogenous Variables --...

Summary of Assumptions -- 1 Basic Concepts -- 1.1 Directed Graphs and Activity Networks -- 1.2 GERT Networks -- 1.3 Assumptions Required for GERT Networks -- 1.4 Evaluation of GERT Networks -- 1.5 Subnetworks of GERT Networks -- 2 STEOR Networks -- 2.1 Stochastic Processes Connected with STEOR...

On Using the Linear Programming Relaxation of Assignment Type Mixed Integer Problems -- Contributions to Duality Theory of Certain Non-Convex Optimization Problems -- Multistate Reliability Problems for GSP-Digraphs -- Improved Bounds for the Sn /n Problem -- Selection of Solutions by Algorithms...

This book presents the state of the art of temporal analysis and cost minimization of projects, as well as project planning under limited resources where the projects are modelled by GERT networks. These projects are characterized by a stochastic evolution structure and possible feedback. The...

This volume contains selected papers presented either at the Oberwolfach Conference on Operations Research, February 1987, or at the three-day workshop on Advanced Computation Techniques, Parallel Processing and Optimization organized by IIASA and the University of Karlsruhe, which immediately...