A support vector machine model for contractor prequalification

Automation in Construction

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 321-329

  Lam, Ka Chi ^a   Palaneeswaran, Ekambaram ^a   Yu, Chen yun ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Contractor selection; Pre qualification; Procurement; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; CONTRACTORS; CONTRACTS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; NEURAL NETWORKS; VECTORS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONTRACTOR SELECTION; PRE-QUALIFICATION; PROCUREMENT; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 59249106913     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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