Due date assignment in repetitive projects

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-85

  Azaron, Amir ^a   Fynes, Brian ^a   Modarres, Mohammad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

PERT networks; Project management; Queueing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DURATION; AGGREGATE COSTS; COMPLETION TIME; CONTINUOUS TIME MARKOV CHAIN; DISTRIBUTED RANDOM VARIABLES; DUE DATES; DUE-DATE ASSIGNMENT; ERLANG DISTRIBUTION; LEADTIME; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; OPTIMAL CONSTANT; PENALTY COST; PERT NETWORKS; PROJECT COMPLETION; QUEUEING; RENEWAL PROCESS; SERVICE TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUEUEING THEORY; RANDOM VARIABLES;

PERT;

EID: 78649316570     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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