Towards real-time simulation of construction activities considering spatio-temporal resolution requirements for improving safety and productivity

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3533-3544

  Hammad, Amin ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^b  

^a Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering ^*  (Canada)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; BASIC CONCEPTS; CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES; CONSTRUCTION SIMULATION; REAL TIME SIMULATIONS; SIMULATION MODEL; SPATIAL MODELING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; STATISTICAL DATAS; TASK EXECUTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRODUCTIVITY;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 84863295559     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2011.6148048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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