In this paper we consider the following problem: a Company wants to sell consecutive time slots on a single machine. It wants to maximize the revenues, whereby market prizes are not known. Additionally, consider a number of potential buyers of those time slots providing each at least one job....

Resource-constrained project scheduling under a net present value objective attracts growing interest. Because this is an NP-hard problem, it is unlikely that optimum solutions can be computed for large instances. Thus, heuristics have become a popular research field. Up to now, however, tight...

The resource investment problem deals with the issue of providing resources to a project such that a given deadline can be met. The objective is to make the resources available in the cheapest possible way. For each resource, expenses depend on the maximum amount required during the course of...