Implementation of data mining techniques in construction estimating

Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computations

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-52

  Popovic, Zeljko ^a  

^a PARSONS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction cost estimating; Cost modeling; Data mining; Fuzzy logic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FORMAL LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

CONSTRUCTION COST ESTIMATING; COST MODELING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 10644267706     PISSN: 10615369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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