Approximately predicting the cost and duration of school reconstruction projects in Taiwan

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1231-1239

  Chen, Wei Tong ^a   Huang, Ying Hua ^a  

^a NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cost and duration; Neural networks; Reconstruction project; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT; REGRESSION MODEL; SCHOOL RECONSTRUCTION;

SCHOOL BUILDINGS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; COST; MODEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 33845717537     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190600953805     Document Type: Article

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