Project Proposal (PDF) - Oxford Brookes University

FP7-ICT-2011-9 STREP proposal
18/01/12 v1 [Dynact]
iv) PERT diagram of the interdependencies between individual work packages
Figure 11. PERT diagram of the project. The causal dependencies (black arrows) between the five research
work packages, broken down into their component tasks, are shown. The feedback links from the validations
tasks T5.2-6 of WP5 and the methodological work packages WP1,2,3 are shown as red arrows. Milestones
M1-M10 are denoted by circles: their location within the lifespan of the project is indicated in months.
The above PERT diagram illustrated the overall structure of the project in terms of causual dependencies
between workpackages and their individual tasks, milestones, and temporal evolution. As we said the project
is subdivided into four "pipelines": dynamic (classical and imprecise) generative modeling (WP1),
generative model classification (WP2), dynamic discriminative modeling and classification (WP3) and
feature extraction/selection (WP4), which reflect the main methodological contributions of the project. These
four pipelines feed into the integration workpackage WP5 in which the developed techniques are tested in
the different scenarios.
A number of points should be highlighted:
1. the individual work packages are subdivided into a number of very specific, detailed tasks;
2. each work package contains two milestones, roughly aligned with month 18 and month 36 (end of
the project);
3. the project is highly parallelised, though dependencies exist between tasks in different work
packages;
4. feedback links (represented by red arrows) are foreseen between the integration/testing stage of the
project (in the different scenarios, T5.2-6) and the theoretical work packages WP1-3: as algorithms
are assembled and tested, strategies and approach will likely have to undergo one or more cycles of
revision.
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