Person-centred simulation of product development processes

International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 204-218

  Licht, Torsten ^a   Schmidt, Ludger ^b   Schlick, Christopher M ^a   Dohmen, Lothar ^c   Luczak, Holger ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER FKIE   (Germany)

^c Business Consulting Bayer Business Services GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

bounded rational behaviour; decision support systems; multiple project management; Petri nets; product development; schedule risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925969459     PISSN: 17402123     EISSN: 17402131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSPM.2007.016311     Document Type: Article

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