An investigation of optimal project scheduling and team staffing in software development using particle swarm optimization

ICEIS 2012 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 2 ISAS, Issue SAIC/-, 2012, Pages 168-171

  Gerasimou, Simos ^a   Stylianou, Constantinos ^b   Andreou, Andreas S ^a  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Particle swarm optimization; Project scheduling; Software project management; Team staffing

Indexed keywords

HARD CONSTRAINTS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; PROJECT DURATION; PROJECT SCHEDULES; PROJECT SCHEDULING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TEAM STAFFING;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SCHEDULING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE TESTING;

PERSONNEL SELECTION;

EID: 84865746223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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