Project scheduling with discounted cash flows and progress payments

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1262-1272

  Kazaz, Burak ^a   Sepil, Canan ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Benders decomposition; Mixed integer programming; Project scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PERT; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING;

BENDERS DECOMPOSITION; DISCOUNTED CASH FLOWS; NET PRESENT VALUE; PROGRESS PAYMENTS; PROJECT SCHEDULING;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0030269124     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.1996.153     Document Type: Article

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