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A note on activity floats in activity-on-arrow networks
2003
Journal of the Operational Research Society
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In project scheduling, the free float (slack) of an activity represents the leeway for scheduling the activity without affecting any subsequent activity. In the context of activity-on-arrow (AOA) network representation, textbooks on project management, based on our survey, have for decades been using a popular formula to calculate free floats that may lead to erroneous results in the presence of dummy arcs. In this note, we present a correct version of the formula. Extensions of the proposed
doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601636
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