Phase transitions in project scheduling

• Main Authors: HERROELEN, Willy, DE REYCK, Bert
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1999
• Subjects: phase transitions; project management; scheduling; Business Administration, Management, and Operations; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6744; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7761/viewcontent/Phase_transitions_in_project_scheduling.pdf

Researchers in the area of artificial intelligence have recently shown that many NP-complete problems exhibit phase transitions. Often, problem instances change from being easy to being hard to solve to again being easy to solve when certain of their characteristics are modified. Most often the tran...