Support Vector Machine Regression for project control forecasting

Automation in Construction

Volumn 47, Issue , 2014, Pages 92-106

  Wauters, Mathieu ^a   Vanhoucke, Mario ^a,b,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earned Value Management (EVM); Prediction; Project management; Support Vector Regression (SVR)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BUDGET CONTROL; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; CROSS VALIDATION; EARNED VALUE MANAGEMENT; FORECASTING METHODS; MULTIPLE OUTPUTS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE REGRESSIONS; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (SVR); SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION MODELS; EARNED VALUE; PROJECT CONTROL;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; FORECASTING;

EID: 84906847683     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2014.07.014     Document Type: Article

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