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Mechanism Design For Strategic Project Scheduling, Pradeep Varakantham, Na Fu
Mechanism Design For Strategic Project Scheduling, Pradeep Varakantham, Na Fu
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Organizing large scale projects (e.g., Conferences, IT Shows, F1 race) requires precise scheduling of multiple dependent tasks on common resources where multiple selfish entities are competing to execute the individual tasks. In this paper, we consider a well studied and rich scheduling model referred to as RCPSP (Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem). The key change to this model that we consider in this paper is the presence of selfish entities competing to perform individual tasks with the aim of maximizing their own utility. Due to the selfish entities in play, the goal of the scheduling problem is no longer only …