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Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Project Management and Scheduling (Rome, 2018)
This volume contains the papers that will be presented at PMS 2018, the 16th International Conference on Project Management and Scheduling to be held on April, 17-20 2018 in Rome - Italy. The EURO Working Group on Project Management and Scheduling was established by Professors Lu´ıs Valadares Tavares and Jan Weglarz during the EURO VIII Conference, Lisbon, in September 1986. It was decided to organize a workshop every two years. Gathering the most promising theoretical and applied advances in Project Management and Scheduling, and assessing both the state-of-the-art of this field and its potential to support management systems are the main objectives of these workshops. 76 extended abstracts have been submitted to the PMS 2018 Confenrece. These valuable contributions were reviewed by 2 referees who are members of the International Program Committee and distinguished researchers of the associated fields. The proceedings at hand contain the 65 papers that were finally accepted for presentation at the conference. There papers involves 165 authors from 23 different countries. The 16th edition of PMS has four plenary speakers: Professor Jacques Carlier (Universit´e de Technologie de Compi`egne) will present the talk “Comparing event-node graphs with nonrenewable resources and activity-node graphs with renewable resources”, Professor Erwin Pesch (University of Siegen) will discuss on “Optimization problems in intermodal transport”, Professor Ruben Ruiz (University of Valencia) and Professor Erik Demeulemeester (Katholic University of Leuven) will delight us talking on “Simple metaheuristics for flowshop scheduling: all you need is local search” and “On the construction of optimal policies for the RCPSP with stochastic activity durations”, respectively. The scientific program and the social events will give to all the participants an opportunity to share research ideas and debate on recent advances on project managment and scheduling. I am sure that together we will contribute to make PMS 2018 a great success. Welcome in Rome and have an enjoyable stay! Rome, 17th April 2018 Massimiliano Caramia (Conference Chair)