An evolutionary approach to the capital budgeting of construction projects

Cost Engineering (Morgantown, West Virginia)

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 28-34

  Al Tabtabai, Hashem ^a   Alex, Alex P ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; Genetic algorithm; Multiple projects; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BUDGET CONTROL; CONSTRAINT THEORY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CAPITAL BUDGETING; EVOLUTIONARY METHOD;

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032179802     PISSN: 02749696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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