GERT Networks and the Time-Oriented Evaluation of Projects

Towards the end of the fifties methods for planning, scheduling,and control of proj­ ects were developed on the basis that the evolution of a project can be associated with a special weighted directed graph, called activity network. In this association, the individual activities of the project correspond to the arcs, the so-called proj­ ect events (beginning or termination of activities) correspond to the nodes, and the durations of the activities correspond to the weights of the respective...