Reference Operation Generation Method on Project Manager Skill-up Simulator

In order to enable project managers to develop practical skills for solving problems in project management without costly training such as “on the job training”, we have developed the project manager skill-up simulator. By inputting actions for improving the project to the simulator, the result of the project is simulated based on a project model and displayed to the project manager. For the purpose of giving feedback for learning actions to improve the project result, we propose a generation method of the reference operation that is a sequence of the actions to derive good results of the project. The proposed method generates the project principle from optimal operations derived by reinforcement learning on automatically generated operations. And, the reference operation is generated by applying the project principle to a certain project model. Experimental results show that the proposed method can automatically generate the reference operation as well as manual generation.

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