Risk modeling of dependence among project task durations

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 419-429

  Yang, I Tung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PAVEMENTS; PERT; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHEDULING;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; SUBJECTIVE ESTIMATION; TASK DURATION;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PAVEMENTS; PERT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHEDULING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 34250346077     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2007.00497.x     Document Type: Article

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