Construction project simulation using CYCLONE

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 16-25

  Sawhney, Anil ^a,b,c   Abourizk, Simaan M ^a   Halpin, Daniel W ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction planning; Construction simulation; Discrete event simulation; Modeling; Process interaction. 1998 nrc; Resource management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PACKAGE CYCLONE;

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031988732     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l97-047     Document Type: Article

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