A decision support model for project manager assignments

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 548-564

  Patanakul, Peerasit ^a   Milosevic, Dragan Z ^b   Anderson, Timothy R ^b  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support model; Integer programming model; Project assignment criteria; Project assignment methodology; Project assignment process

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

HIGH-TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; PROJECT ASSIGNMENT; PROJECT PRIORITIZATION;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34547871640     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2007.900797     Document Type: Article

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