Evolutionary algorithms for resource constrained project scheduling problems: Current issues & future directions

The resource constrained project scheduling problem(RCPSP) has received wide attention in the last 20 years with a number of evolutionary algorithms being proposed. Most of these algorithms can produce optimal or near optimal solutions in less than a second. However, a close investigation of the literature will reveal a number of questionable benchmarking practices. In this paper I highlight some of these issues together with possible future research directions which are mainly centred around the use of hyper-heuristics.