On The Complexity of Delaying an Adversary's Project
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A "project manager" wises to complete a project (e.g., a weapons-development program) as quickly as possible. Using a limited interdiction budget, as "interdictor" wishes to delay the project's overall completion time by interdicting and thereby delaying some of the project's component tasks. We explore a variety of PERT-based interdiction models for such problems and show that the resulting problem complexities run the gamut: polynomially solvable, weakly NP-complete, strongly NP-complete or NP-hard. We suggest methods for solving the problems that are easier than the worst-case complexity implies.
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in The Next Wave in Computing, Optimization and Decision Technologies, B. Golden, S. Raghavan and E.Wasil, eds., Springer, New York, pp. 3-17.
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