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Industries have to design and produce performing and reliable systems. Nevertheless, designers suffer from the diversity of methods, which are not really adequate to their needs. Authors highlight the need of close interactions between product and project design, often treated either independently or sequentially, necessary to improve system design, and logistics in this context. Strengthening the links between product design and project management processes is an ongoing challenge, and this situation relies on perfect control of methods, tools and know-how, both on the technical side as well as on the organizational side. The aim of our work is to facilitate the project manager’s decision making, thus allowing him to define, follow and adapt a working plan, while still considering various organizational options. From these options, the project manager chooses the scheme that best encompasses the project’s objectives with respect to costs, delay and risks, without neglecting performance and safety. To encourage the project manager to explore various possibilities, we developed and tested a heuristic based on ant colony optimization and evolutionary algorithm adapted for multi-objective problems. Its hybridization with a tabu search and a greedy algorithm were performed in order to accelerate convergence of the research study and to reduce the cost engendered by the evaluation process. The experiments carried out reveals that it was possible to offer the decision maker a reduced number of solutions that he can evaluate more accurately in order to choose one according to technical, economic and financial criteria.
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Chelouah, R., Baron, C., Zholghadri, M., Gutierrez, C. (2009). Meta-heuristics for System Design Engineering. In: Abraham, A., Hassanien, AE., Siarry, P., Engelbrecht, A. (eds) Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 3. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 203. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01085-9_13
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