There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

Out of the Crisis

Resource-constrained project scheduling: Notation, classification, models, and methods

Operating room planning and scheduling: A literature review

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/149843/1/manuskript_396.pdf

PSPLIB - A project scheduling problem library

Personnel scheduling: A literature review

Scope and Relevance of Project Scheduling.- The Project Scheduling Process.- Classification of Project Scheduling Problems.- Temporal Analysis: The Basic Deterministic Case.- Temporal Analysis: Advanced Topics.- The Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem.- Resource-Constrained Scheduling: Advanced Topics.- Project Scheduling with Multiple Activity Execution Modes.- Stochastic Project Scheduling.- Robust and Reactive Scheduling.

Project Scheduling: A Research Handbook

In this paper a branch-and-bound procedure is described for scheduling the activities of a project of the PERT/CPM variety subject to precedence and resource constraints where the objective is to minimize project duration. The procedure is based on a depth-first solution strategy in which nodes in the solution tree represent resource and precedence feasible partial schedules. Branches emanating from a parent node correspond to exhaustive and minimal combinations of activities, the delay of which resolves resource conflicts at each parent node. Precedence and resource-based bounds described in the paper are combined with new dominance pruning rules to rapidly fathom major portions of the solution tree. The procedure is programmed in the C language for use on both a mainframe and a personal computer. The procedure has been validated using a standard set of test problems with between 7 and 50 activities requiring up to three resource types each. Computational experience on a personal computer indicates that ...

A branch-and-bound procedure for the multiple resource-constrained project scheduling problem

https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7765&context=lkcsb_research

Erik Demeulemeester

Papers

Personnel scheduling: A literature review

Project Scheduling: A Research Handbook

A branch-and-bound procedure for the multiple resource-constrained project scheduling problem

Resource-constrained project scheduling: a survey of recent developments

Resource-constrained project scheduling - A survey of recent developments