Construction project monitoring by means of RAM-based composite indicators

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1291-1297

  Tsolas, I E ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

data envelopment analysis; linear programming; project management

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

BUILDING PROJECTS; COMPOSITE INDICATORS; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; EFFICIENCY RATING; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; PROJECT EFFICIENCY; SYSTEMATIC EFFECTS; TOBIT REGRESSION;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84879611155     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2012.147     Document Type: Article

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