Expert judgement in cost estimating: Modelling the reasoning process

Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 271-285

  Rush, Christopher ^a   Roy, Rajkumar ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analogy based cost estimating; Cost estimating knowledge; Cost estimating rationale; Expert judgement; Inference modelling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; ESTIMATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ANALOGY BASED COST ESTIMATING; COST ESTIMATING KNOWLEDGE; COST ESTIMATING RATIONALE CAPTURE; EXPERT JUDGEMENT; INFERENCE MODELLING;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035744598     PISSN: 1063293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1063293x0100900404     Document Type: Article

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