Project Management and Scheduling

Technische Universität München School of Management, Germany

PMS is an international conference series devoted to Project Management and Scheduling. It was inaugurated by the European Working Group on Project Management and Scheduling (EWG), coordinated by Prof. Jan Weglarz from the Poznan University of Technology (Poland). The EWG gathers together more than hundred members, primarily from various European countries. 

The EWG decided to organize a workshop every two years. The workshops provide an ideal opportunity to discuss recent and important issues in the field of project management (planning, scheduling, control) and machine scheduling (single and parallel machine problems, flow shop, job shop, etc.). This year, the conference is held in München under the guidance of Prof. R. Kolisch. More information can be found at www.pms2014.wi.tum.de.

The Operations Research & Scheduling group is well presented in this year's conference with five presentations.

In "Using real-life baseline schedules for evaluating project control techniques" by Jordy Batselier and Mario Vanhoucke, a new classification model will be presented to collect project data on scheduling, risk and control using ProTrack. More information on the data collection approach can be found here.

In "A novel approach to solve various resource-constrained project scheduling problems" by José Coelho and Mario Vanhoucke, a new solution method to solve various classes of the multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem will be presented using SAT solvers. 

"The behaviour of combined neighbourhoods for large scale multi-location parallel machine scheduling problems" presented by Louis-Philippe Kerkhove and Mario Vanhoucke builds further on a recently published paper discussed here. It will provide technical details and extensions on the search mechanism to solve parallel machine scheduling problems.

The presenation "Payment models and net present value optimization for project scheduling" by Pieter Leyman and Mario Vanhoucke presents an optimization algorithm that solves resource-constrained project scheduling problems to maximize the net present value under different classes of payment models.

Finally, in "Expansions for the resource renting problem" by Len Vandenheede, Mario Vanhoucke and Broos Maenhout, the resource renting problem is investigated and extended with different features to meet the demands and requirements in practice.