On the amount and timing of project payments with hints to customary contracting in Germany

A huge number of publications deal with project scheduling and very often the objective is to minimize the makespan. We claim that in the real world money counts. Therefore, we review how project payments can be defined in practice. The issues of contracting and bidding are discussed to demonstrate...

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Hovedforfatter: Alf Kimms
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Sprog:Portuguese
Udgivet: Universidade Federal de São Carlos 2007-12-01
Serier:Gestão & Produção
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description A huge number of publications deal with project scheduling and very often the objective is to minimize the makespan. We claim that in the real world money counts. Therefore, we review how project payments can be defined in practice. The issues of contracting and bidding are discussed to demonstrate that a whole universe of specific model formulations would be needed to cover real situations.
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On the amount and timing of project payments with hints to customary contracting in Germany
Gestão & Produção
Project management
Contracting
Bidding
title On the amount and timing of project payments with hints to customary contracting in Germany
title_full On the amount and timing of project payments with hints to customary contracting in Germany
title_fullStr On the amount and timing of project payments with hints to customary contracting in Germany
title_full_unstemmed On the amount and timing of project payments with hints to customary contracting in Germany
title_short On the amount and timing of project payments with hints to customary contracting in Germany
title_sort on the amount and timing of project payments with hints to customary contracting in germany
topic Project management
Contracting
Bidding
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