A simple approach to fuzzy critical path analysis in project networks

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1289-1297

  Chen, Shih Pin ^a   Hsueh, Yi Ju ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SHIH HSIN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Critical path; Fuzzy CPM; Ranking

Indexed keywords

LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PERT; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

FUZZY CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; PROJECT NETWORKS; RANKING;

FUZZY SYSTEMS;

FUZZY SYSTEMS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PERT; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 40749101569     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2007.04.009     Document Type: Article

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