Large-Scale Network Plan Optimization Using Improved Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm

Table 4

The superiority of OIPSO in optimization of resources constraints with shortest project duration.

Optimization parameters	Case  5	Case  6	Case  7	Case  8	Case  9
	1	1	1	1	1
	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.5
	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
	10	10	10	10	10
	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000
The constrained resources of the network plan	25	25	25	25	25
The constrained resources of the initial particle	25	25	—	—	25
The constrained project duration of the initial particle	300	—	300	—	200
The biggest resources quantity after optimization	22	21	22	19	—
The calculated project duration after optimization	199	206	199	206	—

Annotation is the same as Table 3.