Research Article

Multimode Preemptive Resource Investment Problem Subject to Due Dates for Activities: Formulation and Solution Procedure

Table 2

The parameter settings for the problem set.

Control parameterValue

Number of nondummy activities (average number of subactivities)4 (20), 10 (50), 15 (80)
Number of execution modes2, 3
Number of renewable resource types2, 3
Number of nonrenewable resource types2, 3
Activity durations
Unit earliness and tardiness costs1, 20
Unit renewable and nonrenewable resource costs1, 20
Number of initial and terminal activities3
Maximal number of predecessors and successors3
Coefficient of network complexity (CNC)1.5
Activity renewable resource (per period) demand
Activity nonrenewable resource (per period) demand