An Approach to Automatic Project Planning

Project planning in the form of heuristic resource scheduling might be considered to be an application of Artificial Intelligence in the sense that if simple rules are applied to the project model a reasonable plan of work usually results. The technique has been available for many years and is reviewed periodically (1,2). Particular attention has been paid to comparing the heuristics and giving advice on which to use and in what circumstances the rules employed give a good plan.