Coordination scheduling based on fuzzy concepts

The decentralized and loosely coupled virtual enterprise´s appearance prompts a new form of project realization, i.e., the distributed and collaborated project realization, which challenges the research and application of the traditional project management. The imprecise data for scheduling and potential interest conflicts between the individual member enterprises and the whole project cause the difficulties and complexities of the global level scheduling in virtual enterprise. In this work, based on the fuzzy specification of the corresponding information, we present an approach, through the coordination between the manager and the partners, to obtain the global predictive scheduling integrating the member enterprise selection and its sub-scheduling by which the time performance is optimized. Also the strategies of the resources allocation in the member enterprises are given.