Multi-Project Scheduling: Categorization of Heuristic Rules Performance
基于两个项目汇总指标（资源需求峰值位置和资源利用率）对启发式调度规则绩效进行分类，发现新规则在多数项目类别中表现更优，帮助管理者选择合适规则。
Application of heuristic solution procedures to the practical problem of project scheduling has previously been studied by numerous researchers. However, there is little consensus about their findings, and the practicing manager is currently at a loss as to which scheduling rule to use. Furthermore, since no categorization process was developed, it is assumed that once a rule is selected it must be used throughout the whole project. This research breaks away from this tradition by providing a categorization process based on two powerful project summary measures. The first measure identifies the location of the peak of total resource requirements and the second measure identifies the rate of utilization of each resource type. The performance of the rules are classified according to values of these two measures, and it is shown that a rule introduced by this research performs significantly better on most categories of projects.