Advanced Models for Project Management

The field of project management has developed over the past 40 years howeverthe recent increase in computer power has greatly accelerated its theoreticaland com... » 

The field of project management has developed over the past 40 years howeverthe recent increase in computer power has greatly accelerated its theoreticaland computational developments. emAdvanced Models forem emProject Managementem is an expository treatment of the recent developments in project modeling.These advances and their treatment in the book are as follows Chapters 2 and 3broaden the concept of precedence and the description of activities to producea wide range of realistic representation of projects. Chapters 4 and 5 explorethe stochastic study of project features through several analytical andnumerical models using simulation and risk analysis which provideexperimental and forecasting analyses. Chapter 6 examines the allocation ofresources in complex situations and restrictions and also studies thefinancial aspects of projects and optimization of financial elements. Chapter 7assesses and evaluates projects within the framework of multicriteria decisiontheory. Chapter 8 concludes with an analysis of new models based on syntheticindicators helping the operations manager select the most convenientsolutions. br Hence the book provides a number of original advancesincluding an assessment of the complexity and hardness of a project network adescription of the networks morphology a new approach to simulate projectnetworks development of models based on continuous variables to optimizeproject schedules and the development of a threedimension model MACMODEL toassess and to evaluate projects and a new synthetic indicator to support theprocess of scheduling. Finally several software products are presented thathelp the project manager to use new tools such as RISKNET and MACMODEL. «