Project's duration prediction: Traditional tools or simulation?

World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 317-333

  Diamantas, Viktor K ^a   Kirytopoulos, Konstantinos A ^b   Leopoulos, Vrassidas N ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Case study; MCS; Monte Carlo simulation; PERT; Project management; Risk management; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848848113     PISSN: 17460573     EISSN: 17460581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/wremsd.2007.014049     Document Type: Article

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