Communications to the Editor--A Note on "Decomposition of Project Networks"

Robert W. Blanning and Ambar G. Rao
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Robert W. Blanning: University of Pennsylvania
Ambar G. Rao: University of Pennsylvania

Management Science, 1965, vol. 12, issue 1, 145-148

Abstract: In their paper Management Science, Vol. 11, No. 3, January 1965, pp. 444-459), S. C. Parikh and W. S. Jewell discuss the decomposition of cost-time project networks into subnetworks to aid in finding a cost function for the entire project. They suggest that each subproject be replaced by a set of fictitious activities (in series or in parallel) and that a subsequent analysis be performed using network flow theory. However, when the network configuration is such that series and parallel subprojects can be successively joined to give one project, a simpler method is available, which we wish to present here.

Date: 1965
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