A new approach for solving fuzzy critical path problem using analysis of events

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-93

  Zareei, Abalfazl ^a   Zaerpour, Farzad ^a   Bagherpour, Morteza ^a   Noora, Abbas Ali ^b   Vencheh, Abdollah Hadi ^c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Analysis of events; Fuzzy number; Linear programming; Membership function; Project scheduling

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF EVENTS; CRITICAL EVENTS; CRITICAL PATHS; EXISTING METHOD; FUZZY DURATIONS; FUZZY NUMBERS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING FORMULATION; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; NEW APPROACHES; PROJECT SCHEDULING; PROJECT SCHEDULING PROBLEM; SOLUTION METHODOLOGY; ZADEH'S EXTENSION PRINCIPLES;

CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SETS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING;

MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

EID: 77956620023     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.06.018     Document Type: Article

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