A distributed problem-solving approach for owner-contractor prequalification

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 78, Issue , 1998, Pages 111-125

  Park, Sang Chan ^a   Russell, Jeffrey S ^b   Taha, Mahmoud A ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Contractor prequalification; Distributed artificial intelligence; Heuristic; Knowledge Based Decision Support System; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032363166     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018941815032     Document Type: Article

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