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Project Scheduling Under Uncertainty

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Modelling uncertainty in project management has been a topic of great interest to both researchers and practitioners, accumulating a rich literature in the last decades. This chapter covers several approaches for dealing with various aspects of uncertainty in the decision environment. We compare reactive, proactive, stochastic, and fuzzy scheduling methods. The concepts of robustness and sensitivity analysis are introduced, and their importance for project planning is discussed. Buffer management and critical chain project scheduling are described in the context of robust scheduling. Examples of scenario and simulation analyses are given.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabancı University, Orhanlı, Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey

    Gündüz Ulusoy

  2. Rennes School of Business, Rennes, France

    Öncü Hazır

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Ulusoy, G., Hazır, Ö. (2021). Project Scheduling Under Uncertainty. In: An Introduction to Project Modeling and Planning. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61423-2_12

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