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A New Challenge in Project Scheduling. The Incorporation of Activity Failures
Reyck, B. De; Grushka-Cockayne, Y.; Leus, R. - In: Review of Business and Economics LII (2007) 3, pp. 410-435
The goal of this article is to survey the relevant literature on project scheduling with possible activity failures …, the further study of which we would like to foster among the scheduling community. The model has been formulated with R …&D projects in mind, but its study may be useful also for developing scheduling methods in other contexts. We discuss a number of …
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Setting tolerance limits for statistical project control using earned value management
Colin, Jeroen; Vanhoucke, Mario - In: Omega 49 (2014) C, pp. 107-122
Project control has been a research topic since decades that attracts both academics and practitioners. Project control systems indicate the direction of change in preliminary planning variables compared with actual performance. In case their current project performance deviates from the planned...
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THE SKILL SETS REQUIRED FOR MANAGING COMPLEX CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
Mouchi, Glen; Rotimi, James Olabode; Ramachandra, Thanuja - In: Business Education and Accreditation 3 (2011) 1, pp. 89-100
Very few projects comprise the unique character that construction projects have. The product from construction processes are rarely similar with each having unique set of characteristics and qualities that set them apart from other projects. Hence the management of the production processes...
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Community-based protest against construction projects: a case study of movement continuity
Teo, Melissa; Loosemore, Martin - In: Construction Management and Economics 29 (2011) 2, pp. 131-144
time. The model illustrates how social contagion leads to common community perceptions of development risk and opportunity …
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Learning capabilities in organizational networks: case studies of six construction projects
Styhre, Alexander; Josephson, Per-Erik; Knauseder, Ingeborg - In: Construction Management and Economics 22 (2004) 9, pp. 957-966
Organizational learning is a key mechanism for adapting to changes in the organization's environment, sharing know-how and experiences, and for providing innovative solutions. Practices of organization learning are examined in six Swedish construction projects. In the Swedish construction...
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Parametric analysis of the financing cost in a building project
Warszawski, A. - In: Construction Management and Economics 21 (2003) 5, pp. 447-459
A parametric model is presented for the evaluation of financing cost in a construction project. The cost can be assessed at a very early stage of the project's design. The main parameters that are examined are the duration of the project, its pattern of cost and sales distribution, the cost of...
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Distilling and managing engineers' experience in construction projects using a pattern approach
Chang, Chin-Hsiang; Lin, Yu-Cheng; Tserng, H. Ping - In: Construction Management and Economics 26 (2008) 3, pp. 209-223
Construction management requires engineers to acquire effectively and efficiently management experience. Most experience management (EM) in the construction industry focuses on explicit experience (such as writing reports and documents). Furthermore, tacit experience is usually more difficult to...
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The value of reliability
Fosgerau, Mogens; Karlström, Anders - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We derive the value of reliability in the scheduling of an activity of random duration, such as travel under congested … form of the standardized distribution of durations. This insight provides a unification of the scheduling model and models …
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Simple matching vs linear assignment in scheduling models with positional effects: A critical review
Rustogi, Kabir; Strusevich, Vitaly A. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 222 (2012) 3, pp. 393-407
This paper addresses scheduling models in which a contribution of an individual job to the objective function is …. Besides, the same approach works for the models with no prior history of study, e.g., parallel machine scheduling with …
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Reinforcement learning for joint pricing, lead-time and scheduling decisions in make-to-order systems
Li, Xueping; Wang, Jiao; Sawhney, Rapinder - In: European Journal of Operational Research 221 (2012) 1, pp. 99-109
The paper investigates a problem faced by a make-to-order (MTO) firm that has the ability to reject or accept orders, and set prices and lead-times to influence demands. Inventory holding costs for early completed orders, tardiness costs for late delivery orders, order rejection costs,...
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