(This material is not covered in Fraser, Bernhardt and Jewkes. A good reference text is Hillier and Lieberman, ``Introduction to Operations Research'', published by Holden-Day; the fourth edition of ...
This example illustrates the PERT statistical approach. Throughout this chapter, it has been assumed that the activity duration times are precise values determined uniquely. In practice, however, each ...
Chance-constrained programming methods are applied to examine some statistical properties of PERT networks. Using duality, the PERT method is shown to be equivalent to use of the crudest linear ...