Generating project risk response strategies based on CBR: A case study

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2870-2883

  Fan, Zhi Ping ^a,b   Li, Yong Hai ^a,c   Zhang, Yao ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SYNTHETICAL AUTOMATION FOR PROCESS INDUSTRIES   (China)

^c HENAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Project risk management; Risk response; Similarity; Subway project

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SUBSTATIONS; RAILROADS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SUBWAY STATIONS;

CASEBASED REASONINGS (CBR); CURRENT PROJECTS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PROJECT MANAGERS; PROJECT RISK; PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK RESPONSE; SIMILARITY;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 84919742515     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.11.034     Document Type: Article

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