We study the problem of allocating a set of objects, e.g. houses, tasks, offices to a group of people having preferences over these objects. For various reasons, it often happens that more objects, sometimes fewer objects are available than initially planned and allocated. How should such...

The well-known deterministic resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) involves the determination of a predictive schedule (baseline schedule or pre-schedule) of the project activities that satisfies the finish-start precedence relations and the renewable resource constraints under...