An evaluation of project completion with application of fuzzy set theory

Abstract

The project management contains such elements as management of time, cost, communications, procurement, quality, risk or scope of project. Each of these fields can be considered as a set of constraints, and then there is a possibility to verify their fulfillment in sense of an enterprise's constraints and its environment. These constraints determine a completion of project activities and its success or failure, finally. The paper aims to present a problem of project management in terms of fuzzy constraints satisfaction problem, and then the using of constraint programming techniques to the evaluation of project completion. A fuzzy constraints satisfaction problem enables a description of data in distinct, as well as imprecise form, in a unified framework. It seems especially important in case of unique activities of project, when their estimation is based on linguistic information from experts.