Estimation of Project Performance Using Earned Value Management and Fuzzy Regression

Subject Areas : Business Strategy

Mohammad Mahdi Asgari Dehabadi ¹ , Mostafa Salari ² , Ali Reza Mirzaei ³

1 - Department of Industrial engineering, University of Economic Science Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Industrial engineering, Sharif University of Technology Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Technology Management, Allameh Tabataba’ee University Tehran, Iran

Received: 2015-01-03 Accepted : 2015-03-01 Published : 2016-01-01

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