Multi-Projects Scheduling with Resource Constraints and Priority Rules and Fuzzy Activities

Abstract

In order to perform a project, all project managers are facing with high quality standards and benefiting from shortest period of time, possible resources and continuous fights. There are a lot of social and economic factors for a project manager to have an optimized benefit from limited accessible resources either from man power point of view or reserve of materials. Various tools and several techniques are introduced within recent decades for scheduling of projects, but most of them are involved with scheduling of single projects and least for multi-projects. We can model different Courses of Action (COAs) evaluated during the operational military planning as many different activity networks. The corresponding project scheduling model is sufficiently general to be able to represent the most part of military missions. Recently, a project scheduling mathematical model has<br><br>been proposed where each activity called an action in the military context has different execution modes depending on the resource combination selected. This paper is a combination of Simulated Annealing Algorithm and the best Priority rules for solving the problem of scheduling in multi projects with limited resources that has been tested with numerical examples. The numerical tests make it clear that proposed method is better than multi-applicable rules of scheduling.