Work continuity constraints in project scheduling

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 14-25

  Vanhoucke, Mario ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computer aided scheduling; Construction management; Critical path method; Project management

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SCHEDULING; SET THEORY;

COMPUTER AIDED SCHEDULING; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CRITICAL PATH METHOD;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33645501149     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9364(2006)132:1(14)     Document Type: Article

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