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1.1 Aims and Objectives 1
1.2 Chapter Outline 2
2. LITERATURE REVIEW 3
2.0 Introduction 3
2.1 Background of Project networks and Network planning 3
2.2 An Overview of Time Value of Money 5
2.2.1 Causes of Time Value of Money 6
2.2.2 The Importance of Time Value of Money 7
2.3 An overview Net Present Value Method 8
2.4 Three Sub problems of maximum net present value 9
2.5 Construction Schedule 12
2.5.1 Make a Construction Schedule 12
2.5.2 The Basic Form of the Construction Schedule 13
2.6 Method of Network Planning 14
2.6.1 The Concept of Network Diagram 14
2.6.2 Network Diagram and the Time Parameter 15
2.6.3 The key Lines, key Activities and Non-Critical Activities 16
2.7 Particle Swarm Optimization 16
2.7.1 The discrete particle swarm algorithm 16
2.7.2 Compared with other algorithms 17
2.8 An Overview of Project Network Planning Technical 19
2.8.1 The Problems of Fixed Duration and Resource Balance 20
2.8.2 The Problems of Limited Resources and the Shortest Duration 21
2.8.3 The Exchange Problem between Project Date and Project Cost 23
2.8.4 The Problem of Max-NPV 25
2.9 Deficiency of the Existing Research 25
3 METHODOLOGY 27
3.0 Introduction 27
3.1 Research Philosophy 27
3.1.1 Positivism or Interpretivism 27
3.2 Research Approach 28
3.2.1 Deductive or Inductive 28
3.2.2 Developing decision flow model 29
3.3 Research Strategy 30
3.3.1 Qualitative and quantitative 30
3.3.2 Case Study 32
3.3.3 Data collection 32
3.4 Data Information 34
3.4.1 Area Choice 34
3.4.2 Project Choice 35
3.5 Research plan and data analysis 35
3.6 Problems and limitation 37
4. Findings 38
4.0 Introduction 38
4.1 project data 38
4.2 Encoding design of Variable 44
4.2.1 Decision variable 44
4.2.2 The complexity of the variables 45
4.2.3 Priority of activities’ scheduling 46
4.3 Algorithm basic step 48
4.4 The flow chart 48
4.5 Results contrast and analysis 51
4.5.1 Illustration of calculation results 51
4.5.2 Several conclusions from the results 53
4.5.3 Comparison 54
4.6 Summary of analysis 57
5. Discussions 58
6. Conclusions and Further Research 60
6.0 Conclusions 60
6.1 Further research 60
7. Reference 62

 

List of Figures and Tables
Figure 2.1 Gantt chart 21
Figure 2.2 Two Kinds of Network 22
Figure 2.3 Relation of Activity’s Temporal Variable 23
Figure 2.4 Relations between Date and Cost 30
Figure 4.1 Activity-on-Activity Networks 44
Figure 4.2 Activity-on-node Network in Reference 45
Figure 4.3 Main flow chart 54
Figure 4.4 Subsection Flow Chart of Activity Order’s Initialization 55
Figure 4.5 Subsection Flow Chart of Calculating Activity’s Real Start Time and Real Finish time 56

Table 2.1 The existing methods 19
Table 2.2 The difference of algorithms 26
Table 3.1 common contrasts between quantitative and qualitative research 37
Table 3.2 Content and Evaluation of the project 39
Table 3.3 Comparison of primary data and secondary data 39
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