Solving Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with Particle Swarm Optimization (Case Study: Bandar Abbas Gas Condensate Refinery)

One of the issues considered by the projects responsible especially project managers is the execution of project activities according to time schedule. The very difficult nature of that issue is also another reason for the researchers to take much note of it. Therefore, there are especial techniques and methods to solve those issues. Also, project managers pay much attention to the stability of the time schedule as it is important for them. This paper is provided with a real project time schedule for a refinery by using stable time schedule. Particle swarm optimization algorithm is suggested to resolve the problem since the project time schedule has resources limitation including NP- Hard. In order to accesses the validation of the model, 4 issues with small scales has been selected and the results from the suggested algorithm was compared with the accurate result obtained from lingo software. These results indicate that the suggested algorithm is effective and convergent with the optimized result.