A new practical model to trade-off time, cost, and quality of a project

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 3741-3756

  Ghodsi, Reza ^a   Skandari, Mohammad Reza ^a   Allahverdiloo, Morteza ^a   Iranmanesh, Seyed Hossein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

constraint method; Cost; Multi objective decision making; Project scheduling; Quality trade off; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953527346     PISSN: 19918178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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