Time-cost tradeoff problem based on confidence-interval estimates and level (1 - α) fuzzy numbers

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2551-2564

  Lin, Feng Tse ^a  

^a CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Confidence interval estimates; Fuzzy critical path; Fuzzy time cost tradeoff problem; Project crashing; Project management

Indexed keywords

EID: 63549144798     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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