An ant colony system based decision support system for construction time-cost optimization

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 580-589

  Zhang, Yanshuai ^a   Ng, S Thomas ^b  

^a One International Finance Center   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

ant colony system; construction project; Pareto solution; time cost optimization

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANT COLONY SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CONSTRUCTION TIME; MICROSOFT; MODEL-BASED OPC; MULTI OBJECTIVE; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PARETO SOLUTION; PROJECT DURATION; RESEARCH STUDIES; SINGLE OBJECTIVE; TEST STUDY; TIME COST; TIME-COST OPTIMIZATION; VISUAL BASIC FOR APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COSTS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866362979     PISSN: 13923730     EISSN: 18223605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/13923730.2012.704164     Document Type: Article

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