Determining project characteristics and critical path by a new approach based on modified NWRT method and risk assessment under an interval type-2 fuzzy environment

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1 Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

3 Laboratoire de Conception, Fabrication Commande, Arts et Metier Paris Tech, Centre de Metz, Metz, France.

Abstract

In this paper with respect to the importance of risks in real-world projects and ability of interval type-2 fuzzy sets (IT2FSs) to tackle the uncertainty, a new approach is introduced to consider risks and the correlation among risk factors by subjective judgments of experts on the probability and impact under IT2FSs. Furthermore, a new impact function for considering the correlation among the risk factors are extended under an IT2F environment. Moreover, a new subtraction operator is introduced for the critical path analysis. The node-weighted rooted tree (NWRT) method is modified based on the proposed new operator to avoid producing negative number for characteristics of each activity. Also, in order to cope with the uncertainty of the projects, NWRT method is developed under the IT2FSs. Eventually, to illustrate the validity and capability of the proposed method, two examples from the literature are solved and compared.

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Scientia Iranica
Volume 26, Issue 4
Transactions on Industrial Engineering (E)
July and August 2019
Pages 2579-2600

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  • Receive Date: 24 December 2017
  • Revise Date: 15 March 2018
  • Accept Date: 14 May 2018

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