Research Article

Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Subject to Due Dates: Preemption Permitted with Penalty

Table 4

The effect of preemption cost and resource availability type.

Number of activitiesPreemption costResource availability
ConstantVariable
NOPR NOPR

20Low87391.6591375.18
20Medium68427.1374450.62
20High33476.9735507.12
30Low114680.34119716.46
30Medium97792.50108788.31
30High46847.6154864.77