Control in Social and Economic Systems

Insentive mechanisms to reduce projects execution time under linear expense functions

V. N. Burkov^a, A. V. Tsvetkov^a, A. P. Sychev<sup>b

a</sup> Institute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences
^b Research Institute of Transport Construction

Abstract: Incentive problems to reduce projects execution time are put. The optimal unified linear incentive scheme is found that reduces project execution time. The solution is based on the notions of network path capacity and the power of a cutset. A sort of duality theorem is proven to establish the equality of the maximum ways capacity and the minimum power of cutsets.

Keywords: incentive mechanism; project execution; expense function.

UDC: 519.1
BBK: 32.81