‘The approach is a valuable addition to the body of knowledge dealing with the optimization of the project management topic using a clear, factual analysis. The delivery is analytic and engaging, demonstrating an in-depth knowledge which makes the book, by any measure, an effective tool that an educator would find useful for pedagogical purposes. The topic is timely, and the material is presented in a new innovative way that is accessible and useful to the reader.’
Maged Malek, University of North Florida, USA

Due to its societal and economic relevance, Project Management (PM) has become an important discipline and a concept critical to modern organizations, public and private. With his focus on the quantitative models of Operations Research and Management Science applied to Project Management, José Ramón San Cristóbal Mateo fills the gap between scientific research and the practical application of that research, providing project managers with the tools and methods necessary to manage projects successfully.

Contents: Introduction; Network models; Multi-objective decision-making models; Multi-criteria decision-making models; Game theory; Dynamic programming; Forecasting models; Simulation models; Markov models; Data envelopment analysis models; References; Index.