Determinants of knowledge-based expert system success in construction engineering: Analysis and identification of five factors that largely determine the success or failure of a KBES project for construction problem-solving tasks

Building Research and Information

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 101-106

  Li, Heng ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Australia; Construction; Determinants of implementation success; Factors; KBES; Knowledge Based Expert System; Surrogate items

Indexed keywords

EID: 5844274751     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096132197370480     Document Type: Article

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