Advanced models for project management
- Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999
- 309 p.
- International Series in Operations Research & Management Science ; 16 .
1. A systemic introduction to project management 1. Projects and organizations 2. Project management and model building 3. The general systemic model 4. The systemic model of project management 2. Basic models for project management 1. Project networking 2. Sequentiality 3. Resources 4. Duration 5. Optimal scheduling 3. Structural modelling of projects networks 1. Hardness and complexity 2. Modular decomposition 3. Network reduction 4 - Hierarchical levels 5. Level adjacency matrix 4. Morphology and simulation of project networks 1. Morphology 2. The generation method 3. Comparative analysis 4. A test set of generated networks 5. Duration of projects 1. Modellling 2. Experimental results 6. Scheduling of project networks 1. General formulation and typology 2. The binary formulation 3. The heuristic optimization of the binary model 4. The proposed non-linear continous model 5. An application of the proposed model using RISKNET and GAMS-MINOS 6 - Dynamic programming 7 - Risk 7. The assessment and evaluation of projects 1. Typology 2. Financial assessment and evaluation 3. Multi-criteria assessment or evaluation 4. The MACMODEL 8. The optimal scheduling of a project in terms of its duration 1. The synthesis of decision variables 2. A theorem on the propagation of floats 3. The developed stochastic model of the project network 4. The results 5. Conclusions Annex 1. Developed software 1. RISKNET 2. MACMODEL References INDEX