A distributionally robust analysis of the program evaluation and review technique

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2020.09.027MaRDI QIDQ2030655zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ernst Roos, D. Den Hertog

Publication date 7 June 2021

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.09.027

zbMATH Keywords

distributionally robust optimizationPERTproject management

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic scheduling theory in operations research (90B36) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Stochastic programming (90C15) Robustness in mathematical programming (90C17) Programming involving graphs or networks (90C35)

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Uses Software

• PSPLIB

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