Hybrid soft computing approach for mining of complex construction databases

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 343-352

  Yu, Wen Der ^a  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Construction management; Databases; Evolutionary computation; Fuzzy sets; Hybrid methods; Information management; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS;

COMPLEX CONSTRUCTION DATABASES; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; HYBRID METHODS; HYBRID SOFT COMPUTING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 34547898840     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3801(2007)21:5(343)     Document Type: Article

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