Impact of soft logic on the probabilistic duration of construction projects

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 600-610

  Wang, Wei Chih ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Risk; Simulation; Soft logic; Time

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERT; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SCHEDULING;

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; PROBABILISTIC DURATION; PROBABILISTIC SCHEDULING MODELS; SOFT LOGIC;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

CONSTRUCTION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 27944510967     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2005.05.008     Document Type: Article

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