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- Reducing the feasible solution space of resource-constrained project instancesPublication . Vanhoucke, Mario; Coelho, JoséThis paper present an instance transformation procedure to modify known instances of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem to make them easier to solve by heuristic and/or exact solution algorithms.The procedure makes use of a set of transformation rules that aim at reducing the feasible search space without excluding at least one possible optimal solution. The procedure will be applied to a set of 11,183 instances and it will be shown by a set of experiments that these transformations lead to 110 improved lower bounds,16 new and better schedules (found by three meta-heuristic procedures and a set of branch-and-bound procedures) and even 64 new optimal solutions which were never not found before.