A review of the contribution of operational research to project management

DOI10.1016/S0377-2217(01)00097-2zbMath1086.90532MaRDI QIDQ5955087

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Publication date: 2002

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

SchedulingProject Management

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-02)

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Uses Software

• DAGEN

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