Normally Distributed Activity Durations in PERT Networks

DOI10.2307/2582437MaRDI QIDQ3703643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jerzy Kamburowski

Publication date 1985

Published in The Journal of the Operational Research Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2582437

zbMATH Keywords

PERT networkrandom activity durations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of renewal theory (reliability, demand theory, etc.) (60K10) Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems (68M20) Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35)

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