Special tutorial - Project management: Issues in computer based monitoring and control with soft computing approaches

Abstract

Project planning and control for a large, complex, multi-layered project is a difficult process, requiring effective control tools. This task becomes all the more important when a company is embarking on a new project with no history data base backing or it is a start up company. In project control, there are several occasions, where in a project needs to be compressed to meet amended deadlines or costs. In such an event, selection of optimum PERT Chart amongst available options becomes critical. Usually organizations depend on the experience of Project Manager to bail them out of the situation. We present an innovative approach of application neural networks and fuzzy logic for selection of PERT charts amongst options available, based on the history data base and past behavior pattern of the Project Manager.