Evaluating project completion times when activity times are Weibull distributed

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 704-715

  Abdelkader, Yousry H ^a  

^a Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Project planning; Scheduling; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SCHEDULING; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

INCREASING FAILURE RATE (IFR); PROJECT PLANNING; PROJECT TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC ACTIVITY NETWORKS (SAN);

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 2342584130     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00269-8     Document Type: Article

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