Incremental development of CBR strategies for computing project cost probabilities

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 311-321

  Raphael, B ^a   Domer, B ^b   Saitta, S ^c   Smith, I F C ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Tekhne Management SA   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Cost estimation; Data mining; Derivational analogy; Probability distribution; Transformational analogy

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTE COSTS; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSFORMATIONAL ANALOGY;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 34250851719     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2007.02.001     Document Type: Article

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