Shen, Siqian; Smith, J. Cole; Ahmed, Shabbir - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 10, pp. 1794-1814
In this paper, we consider a class of two-stage stochastic optimization problems arising in the protection of vital arcs in a critical path network. A project is completed after a series of dependent tasks are all finished. We analyze a problem in which task finishing times are uncertain but can...