Multi-skill project scheduling in a nuclear research facility

Oliver Polo Mejia (1, 2, 3) , Marie-Christine Anselmet (2, 3) , Christian Artigues (1) , Pierre Lopez (1)

1 LAAS-ROC - Équipe Recherche Opérationnelle, Optimisation Combinatoire et Contraintes
2 CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
3 DEC - Département d'Etudes des Combustibles

This paper addresses the weekly scheduling of the activities within one of the research facilities of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA in short for French). After analyzing the operations and characteristics of the studied laboratory, we conclude that the problem under consideration amounts to an new extension of the classical Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP): a Multi-Skill Project Scheduling Problem with partial preemption. In this document we describe the new RCPSP variant with its respective mixed integer linear programming model.

Keywords: Optimization; Nuclear laboratory; Multi-skill; RCPSP; Preemptive scheduling

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Operations Research [cs.RO]

Oliver Polo Mejia, Marie-Christine Anselmet, Christian Artigues, Pierre Lopez. Multi-skill project scheduling in a nuclear research facility. 16th International Conference on Project Management and Scheduling , EURO Working Group on Project Management and Scheduling (WG-PMS), Apr 2018, Rome, Italy. pp.181-184. ⟨cea-01780570⟩