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Finding multiple possible critical paths using fuzzy PERT.
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PMID:  18244858     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Program evaluation and review techniques (PERT) is an efficient tool for large project management. In actual project control decisions, PERT has successfully been applied to business management, industry production, project scheduling control, logistics support, etc. However, classical PERT requires a crisp duration time representation for each activity. This requirement is often difficult for the decision-makers due to the fact that they usually can not estimate these values precisely. In recent years, some fuzzy PERT methods have been proposed based on fuzzy set theory for project management. However, there is a drawback in the existing fuzzy PERT methods, i.e., sometimes they maybe cannot find a critical path in a fuzzy project network. In this paper, we propose a fuzzy PERT algorithm to find multiple possible critical paths in a fuzzy project network, where the duration time of each activity in a fuzzy project network is represented by a fuzzy number. The proposed algorithm can overcome the drawback of the existing fuzzy PERT methods.
Authors:
S M Chen; T H Chang
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics. Part B, Cybernetics : a publication of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society     Volume:  31     ISSN:  1083-4419     ISO Abbreviation:  IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern B Cybern     Publication Date:  2001  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2008-02-04     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9890044     Medline TA:  IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern B Cybern     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  930-7     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei.
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