This paper involves the multi-mode project payment scheduling problem where the activities can be performed with one of several discrete modes and the objective is to assign activities' modes and progress payments so as to maximize the net present value of the contractor under the constraint of...

This paper involves the multi-mode project payment scheduling problem with bonus-penalty structure where activities can be performed with several modes and a bonus-penalty structure exists at the deadline of the project. In the problem the decisions on when to schedule events and payments, the...

Importance measures have been widely studied and applied in reliability and safety engineering. This paper presents a general formulation of moment-independent importance measures and several commonly discussed importance measures are unified based on Minkowski distance (MD). Moment-independent...