Construction simulation using parallel computing environments

Automation in construction

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 69-78

  Kartam, Nabil ^a   Flood, Ian ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b U ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CONSTRUCTION SIMULATIONS; SERIAL ALGORITHMIC APPROACHES;

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034324870     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-5805(99)00014-X     Document Type: Article

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