Urban planning for low-income groups with developed optimization models

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 607-619

  Awad, Adel R ^a   Aboul Ela, Mohamed T ^b  

^a TISHREEN UNIVERSITY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b MINIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Dwelling layout system; Focus search method; Land use planning; Monte Carlo simulation; Non linear programming; Optimization models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAND USE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION;

OPTIMIZATION MODELS;

URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 0141859844     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-9978(03)00110-8     Document Type: Article

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