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Ideal-Point Task Hierarchies for Cost-Duration Project Planning

An operations-research framework that treats the project-planning stage as decision-making: build a hierarchy of tasks and assign them to performers under joint cost and duration constraints. A minimum-duration estimate (iterative method exploiting simultaneous execution of independent tasks) and a minimum-cost estimate (Boolean/0-1 program) define an 'ideal point'; the method of successive concessions then generates management-decision options approaching that point in a dialog with the decision maker.

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DESIGN OF MECHANISMS FOR ENSURING THE EXECUTION OF TASKS IN PROJECT PLANNING O k s a n a M u l e s

Formalizes the project-planning stage as a set of decision-making problems: building a hierarchy of tasks and distributing them among performers subject to cost and duration limits. The authors defin…