A knowledge-based evolutionary assistant to software development project scheduling

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 8403-8413

  Yannibelli, Virginia ^a,b   Amandi, Analía ^a,b  

^a Fac Cs Exactas   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Heterogeneous effectivities; Human resource assignment; Multi skilled resources; Project scheduling; Software projects

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS EFFECTIVITIES; HUMAN RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT; MULTI-SKILLED RESOURCES; PROJECT SCHEDULING; SOFTWARE PROJECTS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MANAGERS; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONNEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79952452085     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.01.035     Document Type: Article

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