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The paper proposes how to use fuzzy numbers in project planning and control in such a way that it would have a chance to be used in practice. The method is destined for all the projects, but especially for those where in the initial phase the knowledge about the project is very incomplete and is made stepwise more precise during the project execution, also for those in which initial assumptions about the project execution are due to later changes.
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Kuchta, D. (2010). The Use of Fuzzy Numbers in Practical Project Planning and Control. In: Lodwick, W.A., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Fuzzy Optimization. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 254. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13935-2_15
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