Resource allocation with project management software |
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Authors: | Christoph Mellentien Norbert Trautmann |
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Affiliation: | Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie und Operations Research, Universit?t Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany (e-mail: {mellentien,trautmann}@wior.uni-karlsruhe.de), DE
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Abstract: | We present results of a benchmark test evaluating the resource allocation capabilities of the project management software
packages Acos Plus.1 8.2, CA SuperProject 5.0a, CS Project Professional 3.0, MS Project 2000, and Scitor Project Scheduler
8.0.1. The tests are based on 1560 instances of precedence– and resource–constrained project scheduling problems. For different
complexity scenarios, we analyze the deviation of the makespan obtained by the software packages from the best feasible makespan
known. Among the tested software packages, Acos Plus.1 and Project Scheduler show the best resource allocation performance.
Moreover, our numerical analysis reveals a considerable performance gap between the implemented methods and state–of–the–art
project scheduling algorithms, especially for large–sized problems. Thus, there is still a significant potential for improving
solutions to resource allocation problems in practice.
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Keywords: | : Project management software – Resource allocation – Performance evaluation |
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