A management oriented approach to reduce a project duration and its risk (variability)

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 219, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 751-761

  Madadi, M ^a   Iranmanesh, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Important activities; Management oriented view; Project management; Project mean duration; Project variability (risk)

Indexed keywords

COMPARISON RESULT; COMPLETION TIME; IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES; PROJECT DURATION; PROJECT MEAN DURATION; PROJECT VARIABILITY (RISK); RISK REDUCTIONS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84857914091     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. R.A. Bowman, and J.A. Muckstadt Stochastic analysis of cyclic schedules Operations Research 41 1993 947 958
2. R.A. Bowman Efficient estimation of arc criticalities in stochastic activity networks Management Science 41 1995 58 67
3. S. Chanas, and P. Zieliński The computational complexity of the criticality problems in a network with interval activity times Production, Manufacturing and Logistics 136 2002 541 550 (Pubitemid 33094120)
4. S.P. Chen Analysis of critical paths in a project network with fuzzy activity times European Journal of Operational Research 183 2007 442 459
5. T.C. Chen, and S.F. Huang Applying fuzzy method for measuring criticality in project network Information Sciences 177 2007 2448 2458
6. J.G. Cho, and B.J. Yum An uncertainty importance measure of activities in PERT networks International Journal of Project Management 35 1997 2737 2770
7. E.L. Demeulemeester, and W.S. Herroelen Project Scheduling, A Research Handbook 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers Massachusetts
8. B.M. Dodin, and S.E. Elmaghraby Approximating the criticality indices of the activities in PERT networks Management Science 31 1985 207 223
9. S.E. Elmaghraby, Y. Fathi, and M.R. Taner On the sensitivity of project variability to activity mean duration International Journal of Production Economics 62 1999 219 232
10. S.E. Elmaghraby On criticality and sensitivity in activity networks European Journal of Operational Research 127 2000 220 238
11. S.M.T. Fatemi Ghomi, and E. Teimouri Path critical index and activity critical index in PERT networks European Journal of Operational Research 141 2002 147 152 (Pubitemid 34545623)
12. G. Gutierrez, and A. Paul Analysis of the effects of uncertainty, risk-pooling and subcontracting mechanisms on project performance Operations Research 48 2000 927 938 (Pubitemid 32189513)
13. Jassbi, J.; Jafari, H.; Khanmohammadi, S.; 2008. Fuzzy expert system for determining the criticality of activities in mega projects, hybrid intelligent systems. In: Eighth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, pp. 246-251.
14. R. Kolisch, and S. Hartman Experimental evaluation of state-of-the-art heuristics for the resource constrained project scheduling problem European Journal of Operational Research 127 2000 394 407
15. D. Kuchta Use of fuzzy number in project risk (criticality) assessment International Journal of Project Management 19 2002 305 310
16. V.G. Kulkarni, and V.G. Adlakha Markov and Markov regenerative pert networks Operations Research 34 1986 769 781
17. F.T. Lin, and J.S. Yao Fuzzy critical path method based on signed-distance ranking and statistical confidence-interval estimates Journal of Supercomputing 24 2003 305 325
18. J.J. Martin Distribution of the time through a directed, acyclic network Operations Research 13 1965 46 66
19. D.C. Montgomery Design and analysis of experiments 2001 John Willey and Sons Inc. New Jersey
20. C.M.M. Mota, A.T. Almeida, and L.H. Alencar A multiple criteria decision model for assigning priorities to activities in project management International Journal of Project Management 27 2009 175 181
21. Project Management Institute, 2009. Practice Standard for Project Risk Management, first ed. Project Management Institute.
22. T.L. Saaty The Analytic Hierarchy Process 1980 McGraw-Hill New York
23. T.L. Saaty Decision Making with Dependence and Feedback: The Analytic Network Process 1996 RWS Publications Pittsburgh
24. R.J. Schonberger Why projects are 'always' late: a rationale based on manual simulation of a PERT/CPM network Interfaces 11 1981 66 70
25. N.R. Shankar, V. Sireesha, and P.P. Bushan Rao An Analytical Method for Finding Critical Path in a Fuzzy Project Network International Journal of Contemporary Math 5 2010 953 962
26. L.V. Tavares, J. Ferreira, and J.S. Coelho A comparative morphologic analysis of benchmark sets of project networks International Journal of Project Management 20 2002 475 485 (Pubitemid 34490379)
27. R.M. Van Slyke Monte Carlo methods and the PERT problem Operations Research 11 1963 839 860
28. T.M. Williams Criticality in stochastic networks Journal of Operational Research Society 43 1992 353 357