A knowledge-based decision support system for project management

A KBS is proposed in this paper to enable the incorporation of expertise into project management. This represents an alternative to traditional algorithmic approaches, and the structure and development of a prototype expert system for project management are described. The KBS enables the user to selectively modify and constrain single activities or the entire network by specified amounts, reconfigure the network, and recompute resource usage in each case. It therefore represents a potentially useful decision support tool for performing exploratory and sensitivity analyses in managing large projects and a training tool for less-experienced planners.