Applicability of Heuristic Approach in Planning and Scheduling Project

Abstract

This paper focuses on the application of heuristic approach in solving scheduling problems of ongoing project. This study is primarily aimed at providing a suitable heuristic for finding an optimum resource level, which ought to be kept over the project execution period, and a sensitivity analysis of which resource type ought to be increased in order to reduce the project completion time towards the ultimate. The use of resource utilization and a “constraining index” in the search for optimal solutions to this problem of meeting delivery date requirements, and optimize utilization of multiple resources in project and minimize other resources.

Keywords: Heuristic; resource constraints; constraining index.