Research Topic

The output of such research is to provide a set of simple, user-friendly non-prescriptive guidelines that will assist municipalities in developing and implementing their legislatively required performance management system. It is designed to enable them to develop and implement such a system within their resource constraints, suited to their circumstances and in line with the priorities, objectives, indicators and targets contained in their integrated development plan. The main purpose of this research is to improve project management practices within municipalities, which provide the most basic level of human needs - water, sanitation, roads, electricity and range of others. The full life cycle for municipal project management is complex and multi-faceted, and it is for this reason that conventional project management tends to fall down if they are applied directly. Such conventional project management is focused on product delivery, and does not take into account the full needs analysis, the complexity of the planning cycles, the administration of procurement, and the activities required to measure performance and the effectiveness of the entire service delivery initiative Genetic algorithms (GAs) are inspired by biological systems improved fitness through evolution. A solution to a given problem is represented in the form of a string, called chromosome, consisting of a set of elements, called genes, that hold a set of values for the optimization variables. The research topic will be the use of Genetic Algorithms in Project Planning and Project Scheduling Problem. There are strict requirements to timeframes and budget cost for projects. Project management causes the problem of efficient resource assignment, activity, time constraints

and relationships between activities. Project managers must make all major decisions based on their individual insights and experience, must build the project database to record such decisions and represent them as project nets, then use the tools to track progress, perform simple consistency checks, analyze the project net for critical paths, etc., and produce reports in various formats such as Gantt or Pert charts. Our research will be to develop a new technique based on genetic algorithms (GA) that automatically determines, using a programmable goal function, a near-optimal allocation of resources and resulting schedule that satisfies a given task structure and resource pool. Based on the results of these algorithms, the software manager will be able to assign tasks to staff in an optimal manner and predict the corresponding future status of the project, including an extensive analysis on the time-and-cost variations in the solution space. Research Plan 1. Introduction to Project Management 2. Heuristic Algorithms to generate near-optimal schedules for larger projects are also investigated 3. Exploration of the available Software Package for Project Management 4. Genetic Algorithms for project Management 5. Case Study: Application to Abu Dhabi Municipality system

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