project planning is part of project management, which is relates to the use of schedules such as gantt charts to plan and subsequently report progress within the project environment. initially, the project scope is defined and the appropriate methods for completing the project are determined. in this paper a new approach for the critical path analyzing a project network with random fuzzy activi...

this paper aims at providing a new model based on data envelopment analysis (dea) to prioritize project risks. it is clear that the large amounts of involved capitals, the long term of infrastructure projects’ implementation, and the project management problems in on-time completion of projects indicate the necessity of paying particular attention to this issue and conducting applied research i...

Earned Value Management is a critical project managementmethodology that evaluates project performance from cost andschedule viewpoints. The novel theoretical framework presented in thispaper estimates future performance of project regarding the past relativeinformation. It benefits from fuzzy regression (FR) models in estimationprocess in order to deal with the vagueness and impreciseness ofre...

abstract project management in construction industry, in many cases, is imperfect with respect to the integration of occupational health and safety (ohs) risks. this imperfection exhibits itself as complications affecting the riskiness of industrial procedures and is illustrated usually by poor awareness of ohs within project teams. difficulties on ohs regularly came about in the construction i...

many organizations use information technology (it) to improve their performance in the business and operations. but, most of the it projects suffer from a high risk of failure when implemented. recently, many studies have been attended on the concept of critical success factors (csfs) in order to affect the rate of success, but a little effort has been focused on developing strong models to fac...