Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: The application of critical chain project management based on max-plus linear system

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"The Application of Critical Chain Project Management Based on Max-plus Linear System"
by Wenjun Wang, Xiuming Li, Xiong Zeng
in the Proceedings of the 2010 2nd Conference on Environmental Science and Information Application Technology (ESIAT 2010), pp. 640-643

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the papers cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following articles:

"Toward the Application of a Critical-Chain-Project-Management-based framework on Max-plus Linear Systems"
by H. Takahashi, H.Goto, M. Kasahara
in Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, vol.8, no. 3, September 2009, pp. 155-161

"Application of a Critical Chain Project Management Based Framework on Max-plus Linear Systems"
by H. Takahashi, H.Goto, M. Kasahara
in International Journal of Computational Science, vol. 3, no. 2, April 2009, pp. 117-132


We have proposed a method for inserting time buffers without installing new processes in the MPL-CCPM representation. To achieve this, we changed the definition of the representation matrices of the target system. We partly reformulated the previous method. Moreover, we redefined the matrices after the CCPM has been applied for representing the structure of the modified system. If we regard the transportation time between processes or between a process and an external output as a size of the time buffer, we can insert the feeding and project buffers without installing new processes. In this paper, the effect of the resource conflict has not been considered for simplicity. Thus, we should develop a method for resolving the effect of resource conflicts in future work.