Multiobjective evolutionary finance-based scheduling: Individual projects within a portfolio

Automation in Construction

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 755-766

  Elazouni, Ashraf ^a   Abido, Mohammad ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cash flow; Financial management; Multiobjective; Optimization; Project financing; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

CASH FLOW; CROSSOVER AND MUTATION; DECISION MAKERS; DIFFERENT SIZES; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENTS; MULTI OBJECTIVE; MULTIPLE PROJECTS; PARETO OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PARETO-OPTIMAL; PROJECT FINANCING; SCHEDULING PROBLEM; STRENGTH PARETO EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PROFITABILITY; SCHEDULING;

FINANCE;

EID: 80052832799     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2011.03.010     Document Type: Review

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