Research Article

Project Portfolio Selection and Scheduling with Resource Allocation, Synergies, and Project Divisibility

Table 2

Decision variables of the mathematical formulation.

Decision variableDescriptionScopeNature

Amount of resources to be allocated to task of project and resource type in the period , Continuous
If the project is selected to be supported and financedBinary
If task of project is active or in execution in period Binary
If the synergy is active in the period Binary
Additional decision variables in order to obtain the variableBinary
The first period in which the task in project is activeInteger
The last period in which the task in project is activeInteger