Parallel computing framework for optimizing construction planning in large-scale projects

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 304-312

  Kandil, Amr ^a   El Rayes, Khaled ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction management; Cost control; Distributed processing; Information management; Optimization; Planning; Time factors

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; COST CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING; TIME FACTORS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; COSTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 23244452976     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3801(2005)19:3(304)     Document Type: Article

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