A Ship-Construction Dataset for Resource Leveling Optimization in Large Project Management Problems

A resource profile is produced from the resource requirements per day of every executed activity. The project network and the resource profile of the project are the necessary information needed for defining and handling the resource leveling optimization problem. Resource leveling is a highly complex optimization problem corresponding to adjusting a project’s timeline (start and end dates) with the aim of matching resource allocation demands.

The problem is particularly complex when a project is large and involves hundreds or even thousands of activities. Its successful solution is equivalent to considerable profits for the involved construction groups through the efficient management of their resources. The specific dataset has never been published before elsewhere and now there is a clear opportunity to provide these data for testing and benchmark experimentation to interested researchers.