Method and system for risk-hedging in project management

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable instructions for selecting a project portfolio from available projects, the instructions for implementing a method comprising:

receiving an investment cost and a return for each available project;

receiving user-specified constraints;

creating a formulation for each available project, each formulation including a plurality of requirements based on the investment cost and the return for the available project to which it relates, the user-specified constraints and a probability of success variable for the available project to which it relates;

solving the formulation for each available project to determine the threshold probability of success;

selecting the project portfolio from the available projects such that each selected project has threshold probability of success exceeds a threshold value and such that the sum of the investment costs for all selected projects is less than a budget constraint (B) and such that no two selected projects violate a logical restriction included in the user-specified constraints; and

outputting the project portfolio.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium as in claim 1 , wherein creating a formulation comprises creating the following formulation:

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wherein N is a number of available projects; β is a number greater than 0 and less than 1; c i is the investment cost of the i-th project; v i is the return of the i-th project; x i is the selection decision for the i-th project, x i equal to 1 indicates to select the i-th project and x i equal to 0 to not select the i-th project; p i is the threshold probability of success of the i-th project, p i is a number between 0 and 1 if the i-th project is selected or 0 otherwise; [x 1 , x 2 , . . . , x n ] represents the project portfolio, and D represents the user-specified constraints.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium as in claim 2 , further comprising computing for each available project the selection decision x i .

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium as in claim 1 , wherein solving comprises using a mixed integer program solver.