Selection of appropriate infrastructure transportation projects such as highways, plays an important role in promotion of transportation systems. Usually in evaluation of transportation projects, because of lack of information or due to long time and high expenditures needed for gathering information, different effective factors are ignored. Thus, in this research, regarding multi criteria na...

Many applications of autonomous agents require groups to work in tight coordination. To be dependable, these groups must plan, carry out and adapt their activities in a way that is robust to failure and to uncertainty. Previous work developed contingent, temporally flexible plans. These plans provide robustness to uncertain activity durations, through flexible timing constraints, and robustness...

Purpose The objective of this research is to develop a decision method that can generate appropriate risk response strategies for international construction project managers (PMs) and allow these reflect their different preferences. Design/methodology/approach optimal model approach adopted. A credibility-based fuzzy chance constrained programming (CFCCP) developed, which simultaneously minimiz...

In this paper we consider the possibilities and potential advantages for exploiting automated planning techniques in the service of solving scheduling problems. The core competency of scheduling technologies is allocation of resources to pre-specified networks of competing activities (typically belonging to multiple processes) to maximize aspects of global system behavior. However, in practical...

grant number gr/f36545 { uk Information Engineering Directorate project number ied 4/1/1320) funded a collaborative project with icl, Imperial College and other partners in which the O-Plan architecture was used to guide the design and development of a planner with a exible temporal logic representation of the plan state. A number of other research and development contracts placed with aiai hav...

In this paper, the researchers have proposed a multi-dimensional knapsack model for project capital budgeting problem in uncertain situation which has been modeled through fuzzy sets. The optimistic and pessimistic situations were considered and associated deterministic models were yielded. Numerical example has been supplied toillustrate the performance of proposed model. The results were prom...

Project specification involves, firstly, the identification of the technical and business objectives of the project; and secondly, the formulation of a plan and budget appropriate to the timely delivery of these objectives to the customer, taking into account such factors as timing, resourcing and third-party involvement. Project management involves assurance of adherence to the plan and budget...

Software development processes are highly creative, and subject to frequent changes-making it hard to plan and schedule these processes in advance. Also, distributed projects cannot be planned centrally, especially if the involved parties are individual companies with their own areas of responsibility (as is the case in virtual Software corporations). On the other hand, certain aspects of the o...