Scheduling system with focus on practical concerns in repetitive projects

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 619-630

  Yang, I Tung ^a   Ioannou, Photios G ^b  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Crew utilization strategy; Project management; Repetitive project; What if analysis; Work continuity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; SCHEDULING;

COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHMS; REPETITIVE SCHEDULING METHOD (RSM);

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 4043093611     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190310001649065     Document Type: Article

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