Time-cost-quality trade-off in project scheduling with linguistic variables

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 404-413

  Pour, Nasser Shahsavari ^a   Modarres, Mohammad ^b   Tavakkoli Moghaddam, Reza ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Evolutionary algorithms; Fuzzy theory; Time cost quality trade off

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865250815     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2012.18.03.874     Document Type: Article

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