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CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 281-306Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10100-008-0057-z
Keywords
competence development; metaheuristics; optimization; project portfolio; project scheduling; staff assignment
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [L264-N13]
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This paper presents a new model for project portfolio selection, paying specific attention to competence development. The model seeks to maximize a weighted average of economic gains from projects and strategic gains from the increment of desirable competencies. As a sub-problem, scheduling and staff assignment for a candidate set of selected projects must also be optimized. We provide a nonlinear mixed-integer program formulation for the overall problem, and then propose heuristic solution techniques composed of (1) a greedy heuristic for the scheduling and staff assignment part, and (2) two (alternative) metaheuristics for the project selection part. The paper outlines experimental results on a real-world application provided by the E-Commerce Competence Center Austria and, for a slightly simplified instance, presents comparisons with the exact solution computed by CPLEX.
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