Performance of shuffled frog-leaping algorithm in finance-based scheduling

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 396-408

  Alghazi, Anas ^a   Selim, Shokri Z ^a   Elazouni, Ashraf ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cash flow; Evolutionary algorithms; Financial management; Genetic algorithms; Meta heuristics; Project financing; Shuffled frog leaping algorithm; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

CASH FLOW; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENTS; META HEURISTICS; PROJECT FINANCING; SHUFFLED FROG-LEAPING ALGORITHMS;

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FINANCE; SCHEDULING; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84861112610     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000157     Document Type: Article

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