A New Approach to find Total Float time and Critical Path in a fuzzy Project Network
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The purpose of the critical path method (CPM) is to identify the critical activities in the critical path of an activity network. In the real world for many projects we have to use human judgment for estimating the duration of activities. However, the unknowns or vagueness about the time duration for activities in network planning, has led to the development of fuzzy CPM. A way to deal with this imprecise data is to employ the concept of fuzziness, where the vague activity times can be represented by fuzzy sets. In this paper a new method based on fuzzy theory is developed to solve the project scheduling problem under fuzzy environment. Assuming that the duration of activities are triangular fuzzy numbers, in this method we compute total float time of each activity and fuzzy critical path without computing forward and backward pass calculations. Through a numerical example, calculation steps in this method and the results are illustrated. Compare with other fuzzy critical method the proposed method is simple, fast and effective to find total float time of each activity and fuzzy critical path in a fuzzy project network.
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