Mechanism design for strategic project scheduling

• Main Authors: VARAKANTHAM, Pradeep, FU, Na
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Machine design; Economic efficiency; Incentive compatibility; Incentive compatible; Large-scale projects; Project scheduling; Resource-constrained project scheduling problem; Scheduling problem; Strategy-proofness; Scheduling; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Computer Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3851; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4853/viewcontent/RCPSPMechanismDesign.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Organizing large scale projects (e.g., Conferences, IT Shows, F1 race) requires precise scheduling of multiple dependent tasks on common resources where multiple selfish entities are competing to execute the individual tasks. In this paper, we consider a well studied and rich scheduling model referr...