The generation of stable project plans

Abstract.

This text summarises the PhD thesis that Roel Leus presented to obtain the degree of Doctor in Applied Economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in September 2003. The promotor of the thesis was professor Willy Herroelen. The thesis is written in English and is available from the author’s website. The goal of the thesis was to provide recommendations for the detailed scheduling of multi-project organisations, when a certain degree of uncertainty exists about a number of characteristics of the project. Up till now, the majority of the literature on project scheduling has consisted of deterministic models for planning a single project: both the uncertainty aspect as well as the intrinsic difficulty of coordination of a portfolio of projects have been largely ignored.