Improving AHP for construction with an adaptive AHP approach (A3)

Automation in Construction

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 180-187

  Lin, Chun Chang ^a   Wang, Wei Chih ^a   Yu, Wen Der ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Construction; Genetic Algorithms; Multiple criteria analysis; Soft computing

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; SOFT COMPUTING;

DECISION QUALITY; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS;

EID: 34548853136     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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