Resource constrained scheduling simulation model for alternative stochastic network projects

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 105-117

  Golenko Ginzburg, Dimitri ^a,b   Gonik, Aharon ^a   Laslo, Zohar ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NEGEV ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alternative decision nodes; Joint variant; Probabilistic branching; Renewable resources; Resource constrained GERT project scheduling algorithm; Stochastic project simulationa

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; HEURISTIC METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

PROBABILISTIC BRANCHING;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 0038715816     PISSN: 03784754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4754(03)00050-8     Document Type: Article

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