Combination of project cost forecasts in earned value management

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 958-966

  Kim, Byung Cheol ^a   Reinschmidt, Kenneth F ^b  

^a US Institute of Navigation   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Earned value management; Forecasting; Project controls

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FORECASTING; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING; CASH FLOW; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; COST ESTIMATE; COST OVERRUNS; EARNED VALUE MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE DATA; PROBABILISTIC COSTS; PROJECT CONTROL; PROJECT COST; PROJECT DATA; PROJECT EXECUTION; STATISTICAL MODELS; TOPDOWN;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BUDGET CONTROL; COST ACCOUNTING; COSTS; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; INFERENCE ENGINES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; VALUE ENGINEERING;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 83755207707     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000352     Document Type: Article

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