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Computers Industrial Engineering 85 (2015) 316–327 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computers Industrial Engineering journal homepage: /locate/caie PSO based approach for scheduling NPD projects including overlapping q process Esra Koyuncu a,⇑, Rızvan Erol b,1 a Adana Science and Technology University, Engineering and Natural Sciences Faculty, Industrial Engineering Department, Adana, Turkey b Cukurova University, The Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Industrial Engineering Department, Adana, Turkey a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The efficient scheduling of the new product development (NPD) projects is important to reduce the Received 13 May 2013 required development time, and to offer the new product faster. Activity overlapping is commonly Received in revised form 17 October 2014 regarded as the most promising strategy to reduce product development times. However, overlapping Accepted 6 April 2015 must be well-planned by weighting the gain from the activity overlapping against the additional time Available online 15 April 2015 for rework. The objective of this research was to develop a resource constrained scheduling methodology for NPD projects considering overlapping of activity couples. A particle swarm optimization based Keywords: approach is used to schedule NPD projects that include