Measuring and modeling labor productivity using historical data

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 134, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 786-794

  Song, Lingguang ^a   Abourizk, Simaan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Construction management; Data collection; Measurement; Neural networks; Productivity; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AND MODELING; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CURRENT PROJECTS; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; DATA COLLECTION; DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION; HISTORICAL DATA; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; LOW-QUALITY; MEASUREMENT; PRODUCTIVITY DATA; PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; PRODUCTIVITY MODELING; PROJECT DATA; SHOP FABRICATION; SIMULATION; STEEL FABRICATION; SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL DESIGN; STEEL;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 51849095296     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9364(2008)134:10(786)     Document Type: Article

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