A generic feature-driven activity-based cost estimation process

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-39

  Staub French, Sheryl ^a   Fischer, Martin ^b   Kunz, John ^c   Paulson, Boyd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity based cost estimating; Computer integrated design and construction; Derivation tasks; Knowledge based systems; Product features; Symbolic modeling

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COST ESTIMATION;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

EID: 0042889331     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-0346(03)00017-X     Document Type: Article

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