Heuristic scheduling of capital constrained projects / Dwight E. Smith-Daniels in Journal of operations management, Vol. 14 N°3 (Septembre 1996)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of operations management > Vol. 14 N°3 (Septembre 1996) . - pp. 241–254 Titre : Heuristic scheduling of capital constrained projects Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Dwight E. Smith-Daniels, Auteur ; Rema Padman, Auteur ; Vicki L. Smith-Daniels, Auteur Année de publication : 2007 Article en page(s) : pp. 241–254 Note générale : Génie Industriel Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Heuristic scheduling Constrained projects Résumé : The movement to product and process development projects that involve joint ventures among strategic partners, as well as the increasing prevalence of projects within organizations has led to increased implementation of project scheduling methods. It is frequently the case that a capital constraint is placed on a project, thus limiting the number and value of activities that can be scheduled to occur simultaneously. However, the quantity of capital available to schedule activities can increase as additional cash is received as progress payments for completed activities. Since the project manager'so objective is to maximize project Net Present Value (NPV), it is important for the manager to develop a schedule that balances the early receipt of progress payments (which improve NPV and increase the capital balance available), with the delay of particularly large expenditures. Due to the intractability of optimal methods, the use of heuristic methods is required to solve problems of practical size. This paper presents the first test of heuristic methods for solving this problem. We use information from a relaxed optimization-guided model that employs information from the unconstrained NPV-optimal problem in heuristic procedure for solving the capital constrained problem. An experimental design is employed to test the heuristics that includes multiple factor levels for a number of project characteristics, including capital utilization, frequency of progress payments, and project network structure. The results indicate very good relative performance for the optimization-guided procedures as compared to two benchmark heuristics. DEWEY : 658.57 ISSN : 0272-6963 En ligne : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0272696396000046 [article] Heuristic scheduling of capital constrained projects [texte imprimé] / Dwight E. Smith-Daniels, Auteur ; Rema Padman, Auteur ; Vicki L. Smith-Daniels, Auteur . - 2007 . - pp. 241–254. Génie Industriel Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of operations management > Vol. 14 N°3 (Septembre 1996) . - pp. 241–254 Mots-clés : Heuristic scheduling Constrained projects Résumé : The movement to product and process development projects that involve joint ventures among strategic partners, as well as the increasing prevalence of projects within organizations has led to increased implementation of project scheduling methods. It is frequently the case that a capital constraint is placed on a project, thus limiting the number and value of activities that can be scheduled to occur simultaneously. However, the quantity of capital available to schedule activities can increase as additional cash is received as progress payments for completed activities. Since the project manager'so objective is to maximize project Net Present Value (NPV), it is important for the manager to develop a schedule that balances the early receipt of progress payments (which improve NPV and increase the capital balance available), with the delay of particularly large expenditures. Due to the intractability of optimal methods, the use of heuristic methods is required to solve problems of practical size. This paper presents the first test of heuristic methods for solving this problem. We use information from a relaxed optimization-guided model that employs information from the unconstrained NPV-optimal problem in heuristic procedure for solving the capital constrained problem. An experimental design is employed to test the heuristics that includes multiple factor levels for a number of project characteristics, including capital utilization, frequency of progress payments, and project network structure. The results indicate very good relative performance for the optimization-guided procedures as compared to two benchmark heuristics. DEWEY : 658.57 ISSN : 0272-6963 En ligne : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0272696396000046

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