PROXEL-BASED SIMULATION OF PROJECT SCHEDULES

Project scheduling is an important tool that breaks down a complex process into its individual tasks and assigns durations to these. When the task durations are given as statistical distributions, rather than constants , the total project duration also becomes a random variable. This paper demonstrates the application of the proxel-based simulation method to the simulation of project schedules. Taking a project schedule as an input, the distribution of the total project duration is computed algorithmically, rather than by analytically combining the statistical distributions of the individual tasks. The experiments performed verify the method and point towards future work.