Efficacy of using support vector machine in a contractor prequalification decision model

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 273-280

  Lam, Ka Chi ^a   Lam, Mike Chun Kit ^a   Wang, Dan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Computation; Contractor prequalification; Contractors; Decision making; Decision model; Models; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ABILITY; COMPUTATION; CONTRACTOR PREQUALIFICATION; DECISION MODEL; DECISION MODELS; GROUP CLASSIFICATION; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL FEATURE SPACE; NONLINEAR SEPARABLE PROBLEMS; QUALITATIVE DATA; SUPERVISED LEARNING METHODS; SVM MODEL;

CONTRACTORS; MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VECTOR SPACES; VECTORS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 77951234487     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000030     Document Type: Article

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