Managing cost overrun risk in project funding allocation

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 127-153

  Tseng, Chung Li ^a   Lin, Kyle Y ^b   Sundararajan, Satheesh K ^c  

^a Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Jacobs PFI Professional Services   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost overrun risk; Decision making under uncertainty; Portfolio optimization; Project management; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144497702     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-005-6238-4     Document Type: Article

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