Scheduling construction activities using Ant Colony Optimization

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing, Civil-Comp 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Christodoulou, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Ant Colony Optimization; Construction scheduling; Critical path

Indexed keywords

ACO METHOD; ACTIVITY SCHEDULING; ANT COLONIES; ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; ANT-COLONY OPTIMIZATION; COMBINATORIAL PROBLEM; CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES; CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING; CONSTRUCTION NETWORKS; CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULES; CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULING; COST CONTROLS; CRITICAL PATH CALCULATIONS; CRITICAL PATHS; IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES; MULTIPLE-PATH; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; POSSIBLE FUTURES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 80053398528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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