Article ID: | iaor2003169 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 475 |
End Page Number: | 485 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2002 |
Journal: | International Journal of Project Management |
Authors: | Tavares L. Valadares, Coelho J. Silva, Ferreira J. Antunes |
The performance of methods to manage projects depends heavily on the features of their project networks. This is particularly true for methods devoted to project scheduling, risk analysis and resources allocation. Therefore, a long line of research has been developed to generate benchmark sets of project networks and several sets have been proposed in the literature. Unfortunately, no comparative analyses of their features were published and hence serious doubts about the comparability of results using different benchmark sets can be raised. In this paper, a multi-dimensional taxonomy for the morphology of project networks is used and four benchmark sets are evaluated: Patterson collection of problems and the sets produced by the generators due to Agrawal