Integrated scheduling and batch ordering for construction project

Abstract Multi-Mode Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem and material batch ordering for construction project are integrated to help project manager consider various trade-offs among several costs, such as renewable resources’ cost, material price, ordering cost, back-ordering cost, inventory holding cost and reward/penalty for early/late project completion. Therefore, we prove a mixed integer programming model and impel to calculate inventory holding cost and back order cost in objective function. Moreover, a hybrid algorithm combined adapted harmony search and genetic algorithm is proposed correspondingly. In order to inherit elitist solution and maintain population’s diversity simultaneously, we add a selection operator when the harmony memory is initialized and modify the replacement operator based on distance. Besides, genetic algorithm is adopted based on a ‘012’ coding scheme. Finally, algorithm and model performance is presented and several project instances are provided with different network structures and realizations to discuss the factors on total cost.