A modified fuzzy approach to prioritize project activities

  • Authors

    • Sunny Joseph Kalayathankal
    • Joseph Varghese Kureethara
    • John T. Abraham
    2018-03-11
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.6.10143
  • Activity prioritizing, Fuzzy ranking, Project management, Fuzzyfication, Fuzzy soft sets.

  • Abstract

    Project management is an important task in business although project is not just confined to business. Due to the uncertainty of the various variables involved in a project, over several past decades research is going on in the search for an efficient project management model. Although numerous crisp models are easily implementable, the potential of fuzzy models are huge. In the case of software development, the variables involved are highly dynamic. In this paper, we propose a ranking based fuzzy model that can prioritize various activities. We use a popular crisp model to test the effectiveness of the fuzzy model proposed. Simulation is done through Java Server Pages (JSP). There is considerable computational and managerial advantage in implementing the fuzzy model.

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    Joseph Kalayathankal, S., Varghese Kureethara, J., & T. Abraham, J. (2018). A modified fuzzy approach to prioritize project activities. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(2.6), 158-162. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.6.10143

    Received date: 2018-03-14

    Accepted date: 2018-03-14

    Published date: 2018-03-11