Dr. Ell has been given a budget of $5,000 to organize a conference at her university in less than 2.5 months'time (9 weeks) via an educational grant. She has a team of 2 research assistants and after some deliberation,they identified the following activities that are required to be completed for hosting a successful conference.Immediate PredecessorActivityABсDEFGHDescriptionDeciding Dates and Number of sessionsDetermining Venue for conferenceSending out a Call for PapersInviting Special SpeakersResponding to presentersOrganizing Sessions with papersGetting registrations and confirmationsLast minute Edits and Finalizing ProgramDr. Ell has approached you, her student, to help her figure this out, as a part of her Management Scienceclass assignment. Please give your respo with appropriate explanations, tables, and formulas, whererelevant, to the following questions:BUAE U H0000001. PART 1. PERT/CPM with varying timesa. Follow a PERT/CPM model to identify the project network, activity schedule, criticalactivities, and the expected time for completing the project successfully. The expectedcompletion times for each of the listed activities is based on the experiences of all the peopleon the team and is as follows:Activity Optimistic Most Probable PessimisticA0.250.750.50.502ВсDFG120.50.511.50.531.52.51A, BссD, E, FG1.52.514231.5b. Dr. Ell is worried about completing all the required activities before the conference startsbecause she has never hosted a conference before. She wants to know, based on her team'sestimates what is the probability of NOT completing the CRITICAL activities by the end of 8weeks (NOTE: This means you need to look at the critical path ONLY, not all the paths).

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a Follow a PERT/CPM model to identify the project network, activity schedule, critical activities, and the expected time for completing the project successfully. The expected completion times for each of the listed activities is based on the experiences of all the people on the team and is as follows: Activity Optimistic Most Probable Pessimistic А 0.25 0.75 ABUAHd fu В с D E G H 0.5 0.5 0 2 1 2 0.5 0.5 1 1.5 0.5 3 1.5 2.5 1 1.5 2.5 1 4 2 3 1.5 b. Dr. Ell is worried about completing all the required activities before the conference starts because she has never hosted a conference before. She wants to know, based on her team's estimates what is the probability of NOT completing the CRITICAL activities by the end of 8 weeks (NOTE: This means you need to look at the critical path ONLY, not all the paths).

a Follow a PERT/CPM model to identify the project network, activity schedule, critical activities, and the expected time for completing the project successfully. The expected completion times for each of the listed activities is based on the experiences of all the people on the team and is as follows: Activity Optimistic Most Probable Pessimistic А 0.25 0.75 ABUAHd fu В с D E G H 0.5 0.5 0 2 1 2 0.5 0.5 1 1.5 0.5 3 1.5 2.5 1 1.5 2.5 1 4 2 3 1.5 b. Dr. Ell is worried about completing all the required activities before the conference starts because she has never hosted a conference before. She wants to know, based on her team's estimates what is the probability of NOT completing the CRITICAL activities by the end of 8 weeks (NOTE: This means you need to look at the critical path ONLY, not all the paths).

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Chapter6: Optimization Models With Integer Variables

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