Artificial neural networks for construction bid decisions

Civil Engineering Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 239-253

  Dias, W P S ^a   Weerasinghe, R L D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

^b Japan Port Consultants   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Bid decision; Decision support; Job size; Knowledge elicitation; Mark up

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012711753     PISSN: 02630257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02630259608970200     Document Type: Article

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