An intelligent risk assessment system for distributed construction teams

Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 391-409

  Shang, Huiping ^a   Anumba, Chimay J ^a   Bouchlaghem, Dino M ^a   Miles, John C ^b   Cen, Mei ^b   Taylor, Mark ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architecture; Construction engineering; Fuzzy logic; Risk assessment; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; RISK ASSESSMENT; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, AND CONSTRUCTION (AEC); CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; INTELLIGENT RISK ASSESSMENT SYSTEM;

INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES;

EID: 23444455143     PISSN: 09699988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09699980510608839     Document Type: Article

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