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- Title
IMPLEMENTING BETA-DISTRIBUTION IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT.
- Authors
Greenberg, Doron; Golenko-Ginzburg, Dimitri
- Abstract
A research is undertaken to justify the use of beta-distribution p.d.f. for manmachine type activities under random disturbances. The case of using one processor, i.e., a single resource unit, is examined. It can be proven theoretically that under certain realistic assumptions the random activity – time distribution satisfies the beta p.d.f. Changing more or less the implemented assumptions, we may alter to a certain extent the structure of the p.d.f. At the same time, its essential features (e.g. asymmetry, unimodality, etc.) remain unchanged. The outlined above research can be applied to semi-automated activities, where the presence of man-machine influence under random disturbances is, indeed, very essential. Those activities are likely to be considered in organization systems (e.g. in project management), but not in fully automated plants.
- Subjects
PDF (Computer file format); HUMAN-machine systems; COMPUTER algorithms; MACRO processors; PERT (Network analysis)
- Publication
Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 3, p460
- ISSN
1842-4562
- Publication type
Article