Setting gates for activities in the stochastic project scheduling problem through the cross entropy methodology

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-42

  Bendavid, Illana ^a   Golany, Boaz ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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EID: 80052381461     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-011-0940-1     Document Type: Article

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