Cost-safety trade-off in unequal-area construction site layout planning

Automation in Construction

Volumn 32, Issue , 2013, Pages 96-103

  Ning, Xin ^a   Lam, Ka Chi ^b  

^a DONGBEI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Construction site layout planning; Cost safety trade off; Multi objective optimization; Pareto based ACO algorithm

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COST REDUCTION; COSTS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACO ALGORITHMS; ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; CONSTRUCTION SITE LAYOUTS; OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PARETO SOLUTION; RECOGNITION STRATEGIES; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; TRADE OFF;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84878359454     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2013.01.011     Document Type: Article

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