Applying ant colony system to solve construction time-cost tradeoff problem

Advanced Materials Research

Volumn 179-180, Issue , 2011, Pages 1390-1395

  Xu, Shuitai ^a  

^a JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ant colony system; Project management; Time cost tradeoff

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; ANT COLONY SYSTEMS; ANT-COLONY OPTIMIZATION; BASE OPTIMIZATION; COMMON PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CONSTRUCTION TIME; DYNAMIC BEHAVIOURS; MATHEMATICAL APPROACH; MICROSOFT; NETWORK PROBLEMS; PARTICLE SWARM; TIME-COST TRADEOFF; TOTAL COSTS; VISUAL BASIC;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; COSTS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79751489617     PISSN: 10226680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.179-180.1390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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