Article ID: | iaor201526812 |
Volume: | 66 |
Issue: | 9 |
Start Page Number: | 1471 |
End Page Number: | 1480 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2015 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Ding Chunxiao, Zhu Yuanguo |
Keywords: | combinatorial optimization, statistics: empirical, project management, simulation: applications |
The project scheduling problem with uncertain activity durations is considered, and two types of models for uncertain project scheduling problems are established according to different management requirements. These models are transformed to their crisp forms, which may be solved by classical optimization methods. For the models that could not be transformed to their crisp forms, an uncertain simulation is employed to approximate uncertain functions. Finally, two numerical examples are given to illustrate the usefulness of proposed models.