Challenges in line-of-balance scheduling

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 545-556

  Arditi, David ^a   Tokdemir, Onur B ^b   Suh, Kangsuk ^c  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b McDonough Associates   (United States)

^c Honam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Construction management; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CRITICAL PATH METHOD (CPM); LINE-OF-BALANCE (LOB); REPETITIVE-UNIT CONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COSTS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 13944261204     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9364(2002)128:6(545)     Document Type: Article

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