Resource leveling in construction projects using simulated annealing with activity splitting allowed and limited resource availabilities

It is obvious that the most of the stakeholders in a construction project would like to complete the project without any delay and excessive cost. It is possible to meet these objectives by using resource managementtechniques in a project. One of these techniques is resource leveling that assures the contractors that theproject can be completed on time and at cost. Due to the limitations of the availability of the resources and their different types in construction projects, it is more significant to use resource leveling in such projects. As a result, many researchers have applied different optimization algorithms to this problem. In this papera meta-heuristic simulated annealing resource leveling model is presented. The novelty of this model liesin its assumptions, consisting of the simultaneous allowing the splitting of the activities and considering the limited resource availabilities

Keywords:

Resource leveling , Simulated annealing , Meta-heuristic , Splitting