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An application of artificial intelligence to operations research

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 27, Issue 10

Pages 1044 - 1047

https://doi.org/10.1145/358274.358286

Published: 01 October 1984 Publication History

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An extension of critical path scheduling to a case where there are alternate methods for completing a project is introduced. Three solution methods are presented including one based on the heuristic search algorithm used in artificial intelligence.

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An application of artificial intelligence to operations research
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
2. Mathematics of computing
  1. Discrete mathematics
    1. Graph theory
      1. Paths and connectivity problems

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Communications of the ACM Volume 27, Issue 10

Oct 1984

70 pages

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DOI:10.1145/358274

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