Procost - Towards a powerful early stage cost estimating tool

Proceedings of the 2005 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1503-1514

  Soutos, Michail ^a   Lowe, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Cost estimating; Cost modelling; Elemental estimating; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

BUILDING COST INFORMATION SERVICE (BCIS); BUILDING COSTS; PROCOST;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 27144471702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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