Research Article

Robust Optimization for Integrated Construction Scheduling and Multiscale Resource Allocation

Table 1

Notations.

Set and indices 
Set of activities topologically ordered and indexed by
Set of resource types indexed by
Set of time slots indexed by
Set of time scales indexed by
Set of time intervals of scale indexed by

Parameters
Adjacency matrix: if activity is activity ’s immediate predecessor, ; otherwise,
Duration of completing activity
Quantity of resource required when executing activity
Capacity of resource
If time slot be in period of scale , ; otherwise,
The cost of input one unit of resource for a period of time scale
Vector of possible values taken by ,
The number of total independent samples of
is observed with occurrences
An arbitrary big scalar

Variables 
Objective vector of the two objectives
Project completion time
Resource cost
If activity is completed at the end of time slot , ; otherwise, 0
is the amount of resource allocated in interval of time scale
is the probability of being ,
is the start time of activity
The total amount of resource allocated in time slot