Abstract:This paper discusses a special situation in project management in which an analyst wants to prioritize several independent activities to handle all them one after another, in such a way that there are no precedence relationships over the activities. As a novel idea, in this research, the notion is that the structure of prioritized activities is a linear arrangement, and therefore it can be taken into account as a combinatorial optimization problem. The paper formulates a mathematical model, and employes it in … Show more
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