Stochastic construction time-cost trade-off analysis

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 117-126

  Feng, Chung Wei ^a   Liu, Liang ^b   Burns, Scott A ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION; COSTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RANDOM PROCESSES;

STOCHASTIC CONSTRUCTION TIME-COST TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034172005     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3801(2000)14:2(117)     Document Type: Article

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