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A comparative study of Artificial Intelligence methods for project duration forecasting

Mathieu Wauters (UGent) and Mario Vanhoucke (UGent)
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This paper presents five Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods to predict the final duration of a project. A methodology that involves Monte Carlo simulation, Principal Component Analysis and cross-validation is proposed and can be applied by academics and practitioners. The performance of the AI methods is assessed by means of a large and topologically diverse dataset and is benchmarked against the best performing Earned Value Management/Earned Schedule (EVM/ES) methods. The results show that the AI methods outperform the EVM/ES methods if the training and test sets are at least similar to one another. Additionally, the AI methods report excellent early and mid-stage forecasting results. A robustness experiment gradually increases the discrepancy between the training and test sets and demonstrates the limitations of the newly proposed AI methods.
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NETWORKS, SENSITIVITY, PREDICTION, MODEL, EARNED VALUE MANAGEMENT, Earned Value Management, Project management, INFORMATION, PERFORMANCE, REGRESSION, RANDOM FORESTS, SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE, Artificial Intelligence, prediction

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Wauters, Mathieu, and Mario Vanhoucke. “A Comparative Study of Artificial Intelligence Methods for Project Duration Forecasting.” EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, vol. 46, 2016, pp. 249–61, doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2015.10.008.
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Wauters, M., & Vanhoucke, M. (2016). A comparative study of Artificial Intelligence methods for project duration forecasting. EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, 46, 249–261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.10.008
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Wauters, Mathieu, and Mario Vanhoucke. 2016. “A Comparative Study of Artificial Intelligence Methods for Project Duration Forecasting.” EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS 46: 249–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.10.008.
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Wauters, Mathieu, and Mario Vanhoucke. 2016. “A Comparative Study of Artificial Intelligence Methods for Project Duration Forecasting.” EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS 46: 249–261. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2015.10.008.
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Wauters M, Vanhoucke M. A comparative study of Artificial Intelligence methods for project duration forecasting. EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS. 2016;46:249–61.
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M. Wauters and M. Vanhoucke, “A comparative study of Artificial Intelligence methods for project duration forecasting,” EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, vol. 46, pp. 249–261, 2016.
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  title        = {{A comparative study of Artificial Intelligence methods for project duration forecasting}},
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