A neural network based system for predicting earthmoving production

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 463-471

  Shi, Jonathan Jingsheng ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Back propagation; Earthmoving; Prediction; Simulation; Site operations

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; ENGINES; FORECASTING; USER INTERFACES;

BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; EARTHMOVING; NETWORK BASED SYSTEMS; NEURAL COMPUTATIONS; PROJECT INFORMATIONS; SAMPLE APPLICATIONS; SIMULATION; SITE OPERATIONS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0038800863     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014461999371385     Document Type: Article

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