Nondominated archiving multicolony ant algorithm in time - Cost trade-off optimization

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 135, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 668-674

  Afshar, A ^a   Ziaraty, A Kasaeian ^a   Kaveh, A ^a   Sharifi, F ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Construction management; Decision making; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ANT ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM; NONDOMINATED SOLUTIONS; PARETO FRONT; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; TIME COST; TIME-COST OPTIMIZATION; TIME-COST TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS; TRADE-OFF PROBLEM; WEIGHTED METHOD;

ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; COMMERCE; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 67650091786     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9364(2009)135:7(668)     Document Type: Article

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