E3S Web of Conferences (Jan 2019)
Resource allocation problem in project management
Abstract
Resource allocation problems in project management are notoriously complex. Therefore the development of efficient algorithms for solving various specific cases is a real problem. This paper shows a specific case of the problem, where a program has a particular structure. The resource allocation problem in such a program is reduced to classical Johnson’s problem or job-shop scheduling problem. Effective solution methods, by way of reducing to maximum flow problems, are suggested for some types of resources. For other cases, heuristic rules are developed, with a description of the situations in which these rules allow good enough solutions to be obtained.