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Alt, Frank B. (ed.) et al., Perspectives in operations research. Papers in honor of Saul Gass’ 80th birthday. Papers partly based on the presentations at the symposium “Operations research in the 21st Century. New York, NY: Springer (ISBN 0-387-39933-X/hbk). Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series 36, 351-366 (2006).

MSC: 90C31 90B15

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Bowman, R. Alan

Developing activity duration specification limits for effective project control. (English) Zbl 1103.90347

Eur. J. Oper. Res. 174, No. 2, 1191-1204 (2006).

MSC: 90B50 90B10

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Kaul, Hemanshu; Jacobson, Sheldon H.

Global optima results for the Kauffman $NK$ model. (English) Zbl 1134.90473

Math. Program. 106, No. 2 (A), 319-338 (2006).

MSC: 90C27 90B15 90C15 90C59

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Abdelkader, Yousry H.

Stochastic activity networks with truncated exponential activity times. (English) Zbl 1105.90013

J. Appl. Math. Comput. 20, No. 1-2, 119-132 (2006).

MSC: 90B15 90B36 33B10 62G30

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Gouda, Ashraf; Szántai, Tamás

A new stochastic programming model of PERT. (Hungarian) Zbl 1136.90422

Alkalmazott Mat. Lapok 22, No. 1, 97-113 (2005).

MSC: 90C15 90B15

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García Pérez, José; Cruz Rambaud, Salvador; García García, Lina B.

The two-sided power distribution for the treatment of the uncertainty in PERT. (English) Zbl 1118.62016

Stat. Methods Appl. 14, No. 2, 209-222 (2005).

MSC: 62E15 90B99

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Azaron, Amir; Perkgoz, Cahit; Sakawa, Masatoshi

A genetic algorithm approach for the time-cost trade-off in PERT networks. (English) Zbl 1082.65543

Appl. Math. Comput. 168, No. 2, 1317-1339 (2005).

MSC: 65K10 49J15 90B35 65K05 90C29 90B50

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Kotz, Samuel; van Dorp, J. René

A link between two-sided power and asymmetric Laplace distributions: with applications to mean and variance approximations. (English) Zbl 1076.60013

Stat. Probab. Lett. 71, No. 4, 383-394 (2005).

Reviewer: Neculai Curteanu (Iaşi)

MSC: 60E05 60G70 60F10 91B30

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Cho, J.-G.; Yum, B.-J.

Functional estimation of activity criticality indices and sensitivity analysis of expected project completion time. (English) Zbl 1060.90662

J. Oper. Res. Soc. 55, No. 8, 850-859 (2004).

MSC: 90B50

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Milatovic, Milan; Badiru, Adedeji B.

Applied mathematics modeling of intelligent mapping and scheduling of interdependent and multi-functional project resources. (English) Zbl 1045.90030

Appl. Math. Comput. 149, No. 3, 703-721 (2004).

MSC: 90B35 90B50 90C05

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Abdelkader, Yousry H.

Erlang distributed activity times in stochastic activity networks. (English) Zbl 1249.90305

Kybernetika 39, No. 3, 347-358 (2003).

MSC: 90C39 90B35 33B99

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Shragowitz, Eugene; Youssef, Habib; Lu, Bing

Iterative converging algorithms for computing bounds on durations of activities in pert and pert-like models. (English) Zbl 1046.90029

J. Comb. Optim. 7, No. 1, 5-22 (2003).

MSC: 90B35 90C59

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Herrerıas Pleguezuelo, Rafael; Garcıa Pérez, José; Cruz Rambaud, Salvador

A note on the reasonableness of PERT hypotheses. (English) Zbl 1093.62517

Oper. Res. Lett. 31, No. 1, 60-62 (2003).

MSC: 62E15 62E99

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Dubois, Didier; Fargier, Hélène; Galvagnon, Vincent

On latest starting times and floats in activity networks with ill-known durations. (English) Zbl 1037.90004

Eur. J. Oper. Res. 147, No. 2, 266-280 (2003).

MSC: 90B15 90C70 90B35

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Chrétienne, Philippe; Sourd, Francis

PERT scheduling with convex cost functions. (English) Zbl 1059.90066

Theor. Comput. Sci. 292, No. 1, 145-164 (2003).

MSC: 90B35

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Bergantiños, Gustavo; Sanchez, Estela

The proportional rule for problems with constraints and claims. (English) Zbl 1038.91057

Math. Soc. Sci. 43, No. 2, 225-249 (2002).

Reviewer: Georgy Osipenko (St. Peterburg)

MSC: 91B32

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Ghomi, Fatemi S. M. T.; Teimouri, E.

Path critical index and activity critical index in PERT networks. (English) Zbl 0998.90009

Eur. J. Oper. Res. 141, No. 1, 147-152 (2002).

MSC: 90B10 65C99

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Wang, Xinghua

Further discussion on statistical properties of activity flow time in PERT. (English) Zbl 1005.90025

Appl. Math., Ser. B (Engl. Ed.) 17, No. 1, 1-6 (2002).

MSC: 90B25 90B30

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Chanas, Stefan; Zieliński, Paweł

Critical path analysis in the network with fuzzy activity times. (English) Zbl 1015.90096

Fuzzy Sets Syst. 122, No. 2, 195-204 (2001).

MSC: 90C70 90C35 03E72 90B10

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Ludwig, Arfst; Möhring, Rolf H.; Stork, Frederik

A computational study on bounding the makespan distribution in stochastic project networks. (English) Zbl 1024.90012

Ann. Oper. Res. 102, 49-64 (2001).

MSC: 90B15 90B50

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Bowman, R. A.

Due date-based metrics for activity importance in stochastic activity networks. (English) Zbl 1024.90047

Ann. Oper. Res. 102, 39-48 (2001).

MSC: 90B36 90B15

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Premachandra, I. M.

An approximation of the activity duration distribution in PERT. (English) Zbl 1080.90531

Comput. Oper. Res. 28, No. 5, 443-452 (2001).

MSC: 90B50

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Golenko-Ginzburg, D. I.; Lyubkin, S. M.; Rezer, V. S.

Analysis of the stable laws of distribution of the duration of operations in the stochastic network projects. (English. Russian original) Zbl 1060.93102

Autom. Remote Control 61, No. 12, Part 2, 2068-2080 (2000); translation from Avtom. Telemekh. 2000, No. 12, 147-161 (2000).

Reviewer: Andrew Dale (Durban)

MSC: 93E15 90B15

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Schmidt, Craig W.; Grossmann, Ignacio E.

The exact overall time distribution of a project with uncertain task durations. (English) Zbl 0974.90510

Eur. J. Oper. Res. 126, No. 3, 614-636 (2000).

MSC: 90B50 62P99

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Iida, Tetsuo

Computing bounds on project duration distributions for stochastic PERT networks. (English) Zbl 0991.90024

Nav. Res. Logist. 47, No. 7, 559-580 (2000).

MSC: 90B15

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Kamburowski, Jerzy; Michael, David J.; Stallmann, Matthias F. M.

Minimizing the complexity of an activity network. (English) Zbl 0969.90017

Networks 36, No. 1, 47-52 (2000).

MSC: 90B10 65Y20

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Herrerías Pleguezuelo, Rafael; García Pérez, José; Cruz Rambaud, Salvador

The parameters of the classical PERT. An assessment of its success. (English) Zbl 0941.90015

CEJOR, Cent. Eur. J. Oper. Res. 7, No. 3, 159-175 (1999).

MSC: 90B15 90B35

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Chang, P.-T.; Lee, E. S.

Fuzzy decision networks and deconvolution. (English) Zbl 0931.90060

Comput. Math. Appl. 37, No. 11-12, 53-63 (1999).

MSC: 90C35 90C70

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Kang, Sungyeol; Serfozo, Richard F.

Extreme values of phase-type and mixed random variables with parallel-processing examples. (English) Zbl 0948.60017

J. Appl. Probab. 36, No. 1, 194-210 (1999).

MSC: 60F05 60G70

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Johnson, D.

The robustness of mean and variance approximations in risk analysis. (English) Zbl 1111.91322

J. Oper. Res. Soc. 49, No. 3, 253-262 (1998).

MSC: 91B30

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Sharma, R. R. K.

A new algorithm for preparing PERT networks. (English) Zbl 0912.90280

Asia-Pac. J. Oper. Res. 15, No. 1, 37-48 (1998).

MSC: 90C35 90C60

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Levner, Eugene; Kats, Vladimir

A parametric critical path problem and an application for cyclic scheduling. (English) Zbl 0906.68108

Discrete Appl. Math. 87, No. 1-3, 149-158 (1998).

MSC: 68R10 68M20

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Knotts, Gary; Dror, Moshe; Hartman, Bruce

A project scheduling methodology derived as an analogue of digital circuit technology. (English) Zbl 0911.90212

Ann. Oper. Res. 82, 9-27 (1998).

MSC: 90B35

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Ball, Michael O.; Hagstrom, Jane N.; Provan, J. Scott

Two-path subsets: Efficient counting and applications to performability analysis. (English) Zbl 0905.90082

Discrete Appl. Math. 85, No. 1, 25-45 (1998).

MSC: 90B25 90B15 05C38

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Chen, Yen-Liang; Rinks, Dan; Tang, Kwei

Critical path in an activity network with time constraints. (English) Zbl 0930.90039

Eur. J. Oper. Res. 100, No. 1, 122-133 (1997).

MSC: 90B35 90B10

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Lootsma, Freerk A.

Fuzzy logic for planning and decision making. (English) Zbl 0904.90173

Applied Optimization. 8. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. x, 195 p. Dfl. 185.00; £63.00; $ 105.00 (1997).

Reviewer: M.Mareš (Praha)

MSC: 90C70 90B50 91B06 90C29

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Golenko-Ginzburg, D.; Gonik, A.

On-line control model for network construction projects. (English) Zbl 0891.90070

J. Oper. Res. Soc. 48, No. 2, 175-183 (1997).

MSC: 90B15 90B35 90C15

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Phillips, Steve jun.

Project management duration/resource tradeoff analysis: An application of the cut search approach. (English) Zbl 0863.90092

J. Oper. Res. Soc. 47, No. 5, 697-701 (1996).

MSC: 90B35

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Gupta, Omprakash K.

A heuristic for constructing activity-on-arrow pert networks with minimal dummy activities. (English) Zbl 0879.90092

Opsearch 33, No. 2, 115-125 (1996).

MSC: 90B15 90B35

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Mon, Don-Lin; Cheng, Ching-Hsue; Lu, Han-Chung

Application of fuzzy distributions on project management. (English) Zbl 0855.90056

Fuzzy Sets Syst. 73, No. 2, 227-234 (1995).

MSC: 90B15 90C70 90B35

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Garavelli, A. C.; Pontrandolfo, P.

A heuristic method for the estimation of the project duration in a stochastic network scheduling. (English) Zbl 0848.90057

RAIRO, Rech. Opér. 29, No. 3, 285-298 (1995).

MSC: 90B15 90B35

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Samaddar, Subhashish; Kaul, Tej

Effects of setup and processing time reductions on WIP in the JIT production systems. (English) Zbl 0842.90055

Manage. Sci. 41, No. 7, 1263-1265 (1995).

MSC: 90B30 90B05

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Williams, T. M.

What are PERT estimates? (English) Zbl 0841.90064

J. Oper. Res. Soc. 46, No. 12, 1498-1504 (1995).

MSC: 90B15

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Lau, Hon-Shiang; Somarajan, C.

A proposal on improved procedures for estimating task-time distributions in PERT. (English) Zbl 0910.90177

Eur. J. Oper. Res. 85, No. 1, 39-52 (1995).

MSC: 90B35

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Bowman, R. A.

Stochastic gradient-based time-cost tradeoffs in PERT networks using simulation. (English) Zbl 0824.90060

Ann. Oper. Res. 53, 533-551 (1994).

MSC: 90B15 90B35

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Bertolazzi, Paola; Cohen, Robert F.; Di Battista, Giuseppe; Tamassia, Roberto; Tollis, Ioannis G.

How to draw a series-parallel digraph. (English) Zbl 0829.68098

Int. J. Comput. Geom. Appl. 4, No. 4, 385-402 (1994).

MSC: 68R10 68U05

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Denardo, E. V.; Hoffman, A. J.; Mackenzie, T.; Pulleyblank, W. R.

A nonlinear allocation problem. (English) Zbl 0817.90035

IBM J. Res. Dev. 38, No. 3, 301-306 (1994).

MSC: 90B35

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Kall, Peter; Wallace, Stein W.

Stochastic programming. (English) Zbl 0812.90122

New York, NY: Wiley. xii, 307 p. (1994).

Reviewer: J.Dupačová (Praha)

MSC: 90C15 90-01 90-08

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Soroush, H. M.

The most critical path in a PERT network. (English) Zbl 0797.90024

J. Oper. Res. Soc. 45, No. 3, 287-300 (1994).

MSC: 90B15

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Magott, Jan; Skudlarski, Kamil

Estimating the mean completion time of PERT networks with exponentially distributed durations of activities. (English) Zbl 0804.90052

Eur. J. Oper. Res. 71, No. 1, 70-79 (1993).

Reviewer: J.Kamburowski (Toledo)

MSC: 90B15

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Ronen, Boaz; Trietsch, Dan

Optimal scheduling of purchasing orders for large projects. (English) Zbl 0783.90056

Eur. J. Oper. Res. 68, No. 2, 185-195 (1993).

MSC: 90B35

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Found 197 Documents (Results 1–100)

Designing a phase-III time-to-event clinical trial using a modified sample size formula and Poisson-Gamma model for subject accrual that accounts for the lag in site initiation using the PERT distribution. (English) Zbl 1540.62184

Determining the accuracy of the triangular and PERT distributions. (English) Zbl 07809770

The generalized two-sided beta distribution with applications in project risk analysis. (English) Zbl 1517.62056

Extremal probability bounds in combinatorial optimization. (English) Zbl 1507.90151

Algorithmic approach to time-cost analysis of queued commodity flowing through critical path. (English) Zbl 1482.90047

A distributionally robust analysis of the program evaluation and review technique. (English) Zbl 1487.90338

How adding new information modifies the estimation of the mean and the variance in PERT: a maximum entropy distribution approach. (English) Zbl 1409.62114

How to apply penalties to avoid delays in projects. (English) Zbl 1431.91074

Computing project makespan distributions: Markovian PERT networks revisited. (English) Zbl 1458.90387

New heuristics for modeling temporal constraints and generating PERT network with minimum number of dummy-arcs. (English) Zbl 1438.90114

A short expository overview on probabilistic approach to stochastic PERT. (Hungarian. English summary) Zbl 1413.90118

Hart and Mas-Colell consistency in PERT problems. (English) Zbl 1391.91108

Maximizing a class of utility functions over the vertices of a polytope. (English) Zbl 1366.90173

Robust project management with the tilted beta distribution. (English) Zbl 1396.62287

Allocating slacks in stochastic PERT network. (English) Zbl 1339.90320

A new approach to find project characteristics and multiple possible critical paths in a fuzzy project network. (English) Zbl 1430.90173

An approach to find optimal solution in fuzzy project networks. (English) Zbl 1371.90069

A path enumeration approach for the analysis of critical activities in fuzzy networks. (English) Zbl 1250.90040

On the complexity of nonoverlapping multivariate marginal bounds for probabilistic combinatorial optimization problems. (English) Zbl 1245.90099

The use of refined descriptive sampling and applications in parallel Monte Carlo simulation. (English) Zbl 1399.65002

Solution of interval PERT/CPM network problems by a simplified tabular method. (English) Zbl 1353.90031

A new probabilistic approach to the path criticality in stochastic PERT. (English) Zbl 1245.90037

Preprocessing stochastic shortest-path problems with application to PERT activity networks. (English) Zbl 1243.90161

Robust optimization made easy with ROME. (English) Zbl 1235.90107

A new method for constructing a minimal PERT network. (English) Zbl 1225.90066

An optimisation technique for crashing PERT network in project management. (English) Zbl 1231.90167

Revisiting the PERT mean and variance. (English) Zbl 1210.90103

On 2-stage robust LP with RHS uncertainty: complexity results and applications. (English) Zbl 1213.90172

Markov skeleton process in PERT networks. (English) Zbl 1240.90075

Proposal of a new distribution in PERT methodology. (English) Zbl 1254.90081

Criticality analysis of activity networks under interval uncertainty. (English) Zbl 1208.90061

The constrained equal loss rule in problems with constraints and claims. (English) Zbl 1194.91101

Estimating the mean and variance of activity duration in PERT. (English) Zbl 1191.90012

Computing bounds on the expected maximum of correlated normal variables. (English) Zbl 1191.60024

Computing latest starting times of activities in interval-valued networks with minimal time lags. (English) Zbl 1177.90191

An approximation for the activity duration distribution, supporting original PERT. (English) Zbl 1188.90054

A value for \(PERT\) problems. (English) Zbl 1186.90048

The generalized two-sided power distribution. (English) Zbl 1473.62045

Enterprise resource planning implementation decision & optimization models. (English) Zbl 1217.91097

Chance constrained programming models for optimization of project schemes. (Chinese. English summary) Zbl 1174.90609

On path correlation and PERT bias. (English) Zbl 1142.62106

The equal award principle in problems with constraints and claims. (English) Zbl 1138.91509

A rule for slack allocation proportional to the duration in a PERT network. (English) Zbl 1149.90070

Asymptotics and fast simulation for tail probabilities of maximum of sums of few random variables. (English) Zbl 1478.62054

An application of learning model in PERT. (Chinese. English summary) Zbl 1164.90414

Efficient sensitity analysis of PERT network performance measures to significant changes in activity time parameters. (English) Zbl 1177.90197

Applying fuzzy method for measuring criticality in project network. (English) Zbl 1124.90013

Cyclic multiple-robot scheduling with time-window constraints using a critical path approach. (English) Zbl 1111.90033

A direct proof of the equivalence between the entropy solutions of conservation laws and viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations in one-space variable. (English) Zbl 1133.35330

Sensitivity analysis in Monte Carlo simulation of stochastic activity networks. (English) Zbl 1113.90150

Developing activity duration specification limits for effective project control. (English) Zbl 1103.90347

Global optima results for the Kauffman \(NK\) model. (English) Zbl 1134.90473

Stochastic activity networks with truncated exponential activity times. (English) Zbl 1105.90013

A new stochastic programming model of PERT. (Hungarian) Zbl 1136.90422

The two-sided power distribution for the treatment of the uncertainty in PERT. (English) Zbl 1118.62016

A genetic algorithm approach for the time-cost trade-off in PERT networks. (English) Zbl 1082.65543

A link between two-sided power and asymmetric Laplace distributions: with applications to mean and variance approximations. (English) Zbl 1076.60013

Functional estimation of activity criticality indices and sensitivity analysis of expected project completion time. (English) Zbl 1060.90662

Applied mathematics modeling of intelligent mapping and scheduling of interdependent and multi-functional project resources. (English) Zbl 1045.90030

Erlang distributed activity times in stochastic activity networks. (English) Zbl 1249.90305

Iterative converging algorithms for computing bounds on durations of activities in pert and pert-like models. (English) Zbl 1046.90029

A note on the reasonableness of PERT hypotheses. (English) Zbl 1093.62517

On latest starting times and floats in activity networks with ill-known durations. (English) Zbl 1037.90004

PERT scheduling with convex cost functions. (English) Zbl 1059.90066

The proportional rule for problems with constraints and claims. (English) Zbl 1038.91057

Path critical index and activity critical index in PERT networks. (English) Zbl 0998.90009

Further discussion on statistical properties of activity flow time in PERT. (English) Zbl 1005.90025

Critical path analysis in the network with fuzzy activity times. (English) Zbl 1015.90096

A computational study on bounding the makespan distribution in stochastic project networks. (English) Zbl 1024.90012

Due date-based metrics for activity importance in stochastic activity networks. (English) Zbl 1024.90047

An approximation of the activity duration distribution in PERT. (English) Zbl 1080.90531

Analysis of the stable laws of distribution of the duration of operations in the stochastic network projects. (English. Russian original) Zbl 1060.93102

The exact overall time distribution of a project with uncertain task durations. (English) Zbl 0974.90510

Computing bounds on project duration distributions for stochastic PERT networks. (English) Zbl 0991.90024