Sustainability-Oriented Project Scheduling Based on Z-Fuzzy Numbers for Public Institutions

Dorota Kuchta, Ewa Marchwicka and Jan Schneider
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Dorota Kuchta: Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
Ewa Marchwicka: Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
Jan Schneider: Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 5, 1-17

Abstract: A new approach to sustainable project scheduling for public institutions is proposed. The approach is based on experts’ opinions on three aspects of sustainability of project activities (human resources consumption, material consumption and negative influence on local communities), expressed by means of Z-fuzzy numbers. A fuzzy bicriterial optimization model is proposed, whose objective is to obtain a project schedule of an acceptable sustainability degree and of acceptable duration and cost. The model was inspired and is illustrated by a real-world infrastructure project, implemented in 2019 by a public institution in Poland.

Keywords: sustainability; project management; scheduling; public infrastructures; Z-fuzzy number (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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