PRIORITY ALGORITHMS FOR THE PROBLEM OF FINANCIAL OPTIMISATION OF A MULTI STAGE PROJECT

Marcin KLIMEK

m.klimek@dydaktyka.pswbp.pl
State School of Higher Education, Department of Computer Science, Sidorska 95-97, Biala Podlaska (Poland)

Abstract

The article presents the problem of the financial optimisation of a multi-stage project from the contractor's perspective, where customer's payments are analysed as a cash inflow (contractor's revenues) after completing contractual stages and contractor's expenses incurred for the activities executed. In order to solve the problem, priority algorithms are proposed: single-pass and multi-pass ones, using different priority rules and techniques for generating solutions dedicated to the investigated optimisation model. The article presents a comparison of the effectiveness of individual algorithms in the case of adequately prepared test problems.


Keywords:

resource-constrained multi-stage project scheduling, discounted cash flows, milestones, priority algorithms

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KLIMEK, M. (2017). PRIORITY ALGORITHMS FOR THE PROBLEM OF FINANCIAL OPTIMISATION OF A MULTI STAGE PROJECT. Applied Computer Science, 13(4), 20–34. https://doi.org/10.23743/acs-2017-26

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Marcin KLIMEK 
m.klimek@dydaktyka.pswbp.pl
State School of Higher Education, Department of Computer Science, Sidorska 95-97, Biala Podlaska Poland

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