Advanced Models for Project Management

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

Av L. Valadares Tavares

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The field of project management has developed since the late 1950s; however, the increase in computer power 40 years on has greatly accelerated its theoretical and computational developments. This text is an expository treatment of the recent developments in project modelling. These advances and their treatment in the book are as follows: Chapters Two and Three broaden the concept of precedence and the description of activities to produce a wide range of realistic representation of projects. Chapters Four and Five explore the stochastic study of project features through several analytical and numerical models - using simulation and risk analysis - which provide experimental and forecasting analyses. Chapter Six examines the allocation of resources in complex situations and restrictions, and also studies the financial aspects of projects and optimization of financial elements. Chapter Seven assesses and evaluates projects within the framework of multi-criteria decision theory. Chapter Eight concludes with an analysis of new models based on synthetic indicators, helping the operations manager select the most convenient solutions.Hence, the book provides a number of original advances, including: an assessment of the complexity and hardness of a project network; a description of the network's morphology; a new approach to simulate project networks; development of models based on continuous variables to optimize project schedules; and the development of a three-dimension model (MACMODEL) to assess and to evaluate projects and a new synthetic indicator to support the process of scheduling. Finally, several software products are presented that help the project manager to use new tools such as RISKNET and MACMODEL.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1998-10-31
Mått155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt664 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternational Series in Operations Research & Management Science
Antal sidor309
FörlagKluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN9780792382225

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1. A Systemic Introduction to Project Management.- 1. Projects and organizations.- 2. Project management and model building.- 3. The general systemic model.- 4. The systemic model of project management.- 2. Basic Models for Project Management.- 1. Project networking.- 2. Sequentiality.- 3. Resources.- 4. Duration.- 5. Optimal scheduling.- 3. Structural Modelling of Projects Networks.- 1. Hardness and complexity.- 2. Modular decomposition.- 3. Network reduction.- 4. Hierarchical levels.- 5. Level adjacency matrix.- 4. Morphology and Simulation of Project Networks.- 1. Morphology.- 2. The generation method.- 3. Comparative analysis.- 4. A test set of generated networks.- 5. Duration of projects.- 1. Modelling.- 2. Experimental results.- 6. Scheduling of Project Networks.- 1. General formulation and typology.- 2. The binary formulation.- 3. The heuristic optimization of the binary model.- 4. The proposed non-linear continuous model.- 5. An application of the proposed model using RISKNET and GAMS-MINOS.- 6. Dynamic Programming.- 7. Risk.- 7. The Assessment and Evaluation of Projects.- 1. Typology.- 2. Financial assessment and evaluation.- 3. Multi-criteria assessment or evaluation.- 4. The MACMODEL.- 8. The Optimal Scheduling of a Project in Terms of Its Duration.- 1. The synthesis of decision variables.- 2. A theorem on the propagation of floats.- 3. The developed stochastic model of the project network.- 4. The results.- 5. Conclusions.- Annex 1 — Developed Software.- 1. RISKNET.- 2. MACMODEL.- Annex 2 — Main Notation.- References.