Stochastic Project Networks

Stochastic Project Networks
Author: Klaus Neumann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3642615155

Project planning, scheduling, and control are regularly used in business and the service sector of an economy to accomplish outcomes with limited resources under critical time constraints. To aid in solving these problems, network-based planning methods have been developed that now exist in a wide variety of forms, cf. Elmaghraby (1977) and Moder et al. (1983). The so-called "classical" project networks, which are used in the network techniques CPM and PERT and which represent acyclic weighted directed graphs, are able to describe only projects whose evolution in time is uniquely specified in advance. Here every event of the project is realized exactly once during a single project execution and it is not possible to return to activities previously carried out (that is, no feedback is permitted). Many practical projects, however, do not meet those conditions. Consider, for example, a production process where some parts produced by a machine may be poorly manufactured. If an inspection shows that a part does not conform to certain specifications, it must be repaired or replaced by a new item. This means that we have to return to a preceding stage of the production process. In other words, there is feedback. Note that the result of the inspection is that a certain percentage of the parts tested do not conform. That is, there is a positive probability (strictly less than 1) that any part is defective.

Perspectives in Operations Research

Perspectives in Operations Research
Author: Frank B. Alt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2006-12-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0387399348

A Symposium was held on February 25, 2006 in honor of the 80th birthday of Saul I. Gass and his major contributions to the field of operations research over 50 years. This volume includes articles from each of the Symposium speakers plus 16 other articles from friends, colleagues, and former students. Each contributor offers a forward-looking perspective on the future development of the field.

Project Scheduling

Project Scheduling
Author: Erik Leuven Demeulemeester
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 701
Release: 2006-04-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0306481421

Our objectives in writing Project Scheduling: A Research Handbook are threefold: (1) Provide a unified scheme for classifying the numerous project scheduling problems occurring in practice and studied in the literature; (2) Provide a unified and up-to-date treatment of the state-of-the-art procedures developed for their solution; (3) Alert the reader to various important problems that are still in need of considerable research effort. Project Scheduling: A Research Handbook has been divided into four parts. Part I consists of three chapters on the scope and relevance of project scheduling, on the nature of project scheduling, and finally on the introduction of a unified scheme that will be used in subsequent chapters for the identification and classification of the project scheduling problems studied in this book. Part II focuses on the time analysis of project networks. Part III carries the discussion further into the crucial topic of scheduling under scarce resources. Part IV deals with robust scheduling and stochastic scheduling issues. Numerous tables and figures are used throughout the book to enhance the clarity and effectiveness of the discussions. For the interested and motivated reader, the problems at the end of each chapter should be considered as an integral part of the presentation.

Project Management Techniques and Innovations in Information Technology

Project Management Techniques and Innovations in Information Technology
Author: Wang, John
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466609311

"This book presents the latest research, case studies, best practices, and methodologies within the field of IT project management, offering research from top experts around the world in a variety of IT project management applications and job sectors"--Provided by publisher.

Advances in Project Scheduling

Advances in Project Scheduling
Author: R. Slowinski
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1483290727

This multi-author volume, containing contributions from international experts in the field, presents recent developments in project scheduling for both theory and practice. It is organized in three parts: I. Basic deterministic models; II. Special deterministic models; III. Stochastic models. A variety of approaches is presented dealing with multiple-category resource constraints, different mathematical models of activities, and various project performance measures in single and multiobjective formulation. Exact and heuristic algorithms are presented for both deterministic and stochastic project description.The volume will be of special interest to scientists, students, decision makers, executive managers, consultants and practitioners involved in systems management or operations research, in particular in business, engineering, and finance, but also in other areas of pure and applied sciences.

Handbook on Project Management and Scheduling Vol. 2

Handbook on Project Management and Scheduling Vol. 2
Author: Christoph Schwindt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 768
Release: 2015-01-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319059157

Due to the increasing importance of product differentiation and collapsing product life cycles, a growing number of value-adding activities in the industry and service sector are organized in projects. Projects come in many forms, often taking considerable time and consuming a large amount of resources. The management and scheduling of projects represents a challenging task and project performance may have a considerable impact on an organization's competitiveness. This handbook presents state-of-the-art approaches to project management and scheduling. More than sixty contributions written by leading experts in the field provide an authoritative survey of recent developments. The book serves as a comprehensive reference, both, for researchers and project management professionals. The handbook consists of two volumes. Volume 1 is devoted to single-modal and multi-modal project scheduling. Volume 2 presents multi-project problems, project scheduling under uncertainty and vagueness, managerial approaches and a separate part on applications, case studies and information systems.

Project Management

Project Management
Author: Hira N. Ahuja
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 528
Release: 1994-06-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780471591689

Using a systems perspective, this updated version concentrates on the planning, scheduling and control factors of a project needed to bring it in on time and on or under cost. This edition contains expanded coverage of computer simulation and applications, information management and expert systems in project management. Includes a new chapter on Total Quality Management.

INFOR.

INFOR.
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1989
Genre: Electronic data processing
ISBN:

Management

Management
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 1970
Genre: Industrial engineering
ISBN: