Ex-ante policy analysis in civil infrastructure systems

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Mostafavi, Ali ^a   Abraham, Dulcy ^b   Delaurentis, Daniel ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Computing; Ex Ante; Infrastructure; Policy analysis; Simulation; System dynamics; System of systems

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; PUBLIC POLICY;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; COMPUTING; EX-ANTE; INFRASTRUCTURE; POLICY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; SYSTEM-OF-SYSTEMS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84906217264     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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