An approximation for the activity duration distribution, supporting original PERT

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Authors N. Ravi Shankar, V. Sireesha

Publication date 21 June 2010

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zbMATH Keywords

activity timesbeta distributionPERTproject management

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Stochastic network models in operations research (90B15) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Large-scale problems in mathematical programming (90C06)

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