The management and scheduling of projects represents a challenging task, and project performance may have a considerable impact on an organization's competitiveness.This handbook presents state-of-the-art approaches to project management and scheduling.

The management and scheduling of projects represents a challenging task and project performance may have a considerable impact on an organization's competitiveness.This handbook presents state-of-the-art approaches to project management and scheduling.

This book showcases a large variety of multiple criteria decision applications (MCDAs), presenting them in a coherent framework provided by the methodology chapters and the comments accompanying each case study. The chapters describing MCDAs invite the reader to experiment with MCDA methods and perhaps develop new variants using data from these case studies or other cases they encounter, equipping them with a broader perception of real-world problems and how to overcome them with the help of MCDAs.

This book explores scheduling problems in advanced planning and computer systems. The text examines a range of parameters: job priority, release times, due dates, processing times, resource usage and more, focusing on such aspects as computer systems and supply chain management.