Object-Oriented Scheduling for Repetitive Projects with Soft Logics
Publication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 132, Issue 1
Abstract
The application of network techniques of project scheduling to repetitive projects has been criticized for the inability of network techniques to help maintain work continuity. Moreover, current network techniques require a large number of activities to represent a repetitive project and presume that there is only one logical sequence. This makes schedules time consuming to develop as well as maintain. Further, the logic chosen by the planner might be far from the shortest possible duration. This paper, utilizing the soft logic sequencing principles developed by Fan et al., develops a system which provides an easy input module in addition to scheduling and work-continuity-maintenance modules. The system eases the network generation and update processes, which in turn provides the shortest possible duration logics and the start and finish dates required to maintain work continuity.
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Acknowledgment
The writers would like to acknowledge the National Science Council, Taiwan, for financially supporting this work under Contract No. NSCTNSC-91-2211-E002-71.
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Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 132 • Issue 1 • January 2006
Pages: 35 - 48
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Received: Oct 13, 2004
Accepted: Apr 12, 2005
Published online: Jan 1, 2006
Published in print: Jan 2006
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