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Proactive and Reactive Constraint Programming for Stochastic Project Scheduling with Maximal Time-Lags

Artificial Intelligence 2025-03-25 v4

Abstract

This study investigates scheduling strategies for the stochastic resource-constrained project scheduling problem with maximal time lags (SRCPSP/max)). Recent advances in Constraint Programming (CP) and Temporal Networks have reinvoked interest in evaluating the advantages and drawbacks of various proactive and reactive scheduling methods. First, we present a new, CP-based fully proactive method. Second, we show how a reactive approach can be constructed using an online rescheduling procedure. A third contribution is based on partial order schedules and uses Simple Temporal Networks with Uncertainty (STNUs). Our statistical analysis shows that the STNU-based algorithm performs best in terms of solution quality, while also showing good relative offline and online computation time.

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@article{arxiv.2409.09107,
  title  = {Proactive and Reactive Constraint Programming for Stochastic Project Scheduling with Maximal Time-Lags},
  author = {Kim van den Houten and Léon Planken and Esteban Freydell and David M. J. Tax and Mathijs de Weerdt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.09107},
  year   = {2025}
}
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