Artificial Intelligence Techniques Used in Project Management

Abstract

Artificial intelligence is defined as the ability of a machine to mimic intelligent human behaviour and therefore attempts to simulate human cognition capability through symbol manipulation and symbolically structured knowledge bases. Because of many uncertain factors, complicated influence factors in project management, every project has its individual character and generality. Over the last decade, the development and application of artificial intelligence in project management has given good grounds for expecting of achievements, which are mainly used in project evaluation, diagnosis, decision-making and prediction. This paper presents artificial intelligence techniques used in project management. It tries to gather the recent advances and trends on artificial intelligence techniques used in Project Management.

Keywords

• Artificial intelligence
• Project management
• Expert systems
• Genetic algorithms
• Artificial neural network

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