Competency-based selection and assignment of human resources to construction projects

Scientia Iranica

Volumn 18, Issue 2 A, 2011, Pages 163-180

  Shahhosseini, V ^a   Sebt, M H ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

ANFIS; Competency; Construction personnel; Fuzzy ahp; Project management

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ADAPTIVE NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM; ANFIS; COMPETENCY; CONSTRUCTION PERSONNEL; FUZZY AHP; FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; HYBRID LEARNING ALGORITHM; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT POLICY;

PERSONNEL SELECTION;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; CONSTRUCTION METHOD; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HUMAN RESOURCE; LABOR; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 80052868435     PISSN: 10263098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scient.2011.03.026     Document Type: Article

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