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Research and Development Planning: Selecting and Scheduling Projects with Approximate Solutions to a Markov Decision Model Dissertation Executive Summary 
Kevin Gormley, 4/26/07
Committee: Professor William Scherer (Advisor), Professor K.P. White (Chair), Professor Peter Beling, Professor Robert Carraway; Dr. Patricia Massimini
This research investigated approximate solution methods for solving the Research and Development (R&D) project selection and scheduling problem. Globally, […]

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R&D planning consists of project selection and project scheduling.  It is not enough to select a good initial portfolio of R&D projects.  The projects must be chosen while consider the future schedule of the subsequent projects.  Within an R&D network, there may be several sets of dependent projects.

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