Empirical perspective on activity durations for project-management simulation studies

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Colin, Jeroen ^a   Vanhoucke, Mario ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Classification; Empirical data; Project management; Simulated data

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; EMPIRICAL DATA; HISTORICAL RECORDS; INPUT DISTRIBUTIONS; MANAGEMENT SIMULATIONS; SIMULATED DATA;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84950108475     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001022     Document Type: Article

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