A heuristic method for the estimation of the project duration in a stochastic network scheduling

A. C. Garavelli; P. Pontrandolfo

RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle (1995)

  • Volume: 29, Issue: 3, page 285-298
  • ISSN: 0399-0559

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Garavelli, A. C., and Pontrandolfo, P.. "A heuristic method for the estimation of the project duration in a stochastic network scheduling." RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle 29.3 (1995): 285-298. <http://eudml.org/doc/105110>.

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volume = {29},
year = {1995},
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