Case Studies

In this chapter, we study two real-world applications of resource-constrained project scheduling. First, we deal with scheduling the experiments of a medical research project. Here, various constraints have to be observed, especially scarce laboratory equipment and the arrangement of different experiment types. Then we consider the task of scheduling the interviews of a market research study which can be viewed as a project. This includes the selection of interviewers with respect to several constraints such as regional distribution of the interviews, qualification, and available working time of the interviewers.