Managing stochastic, finite capacity, multi-project systems through the cross-entropy methodology

DOI10.1007/S10479-005-5730-1MaRDI QIDQ2485933zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Izack Cohen, Boaz Golany, Avraham Shtub

Publication date 5 August 2005

Published in Annals of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-005-5730-1

zbMATH Keywords

cross-entropyfinite capacityproject managementsimulationstochastic processesuncertainty modeling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Fuzzy and other nonstochastic uncertainty mathematical programming (90C70)

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• A simulation-based approximate dynamic programming approach to dynamic and stochastic resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem
• Resource allocation in stochastic, finite-capacity, multi-project systems through the cross entropy methodology

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