An alternative heuristic method for scheduling repetitive projects in which resources are limited and activities may be executed with multiple modes of resource demands associated with different durations is proposed. Unlike general heuristic methods that separately analyze each competing...

Reduction in construction project duration is generally linked to additional cost due to more expensive resources required. Hence tradeoff between time and cost is crucial to the efficiency of a construction project. The time-cost tradeoff (TCT) issue has been studied through various...

The hook times of mobile cranes are processes that are of non-linear and discrete nature. Artificial neural network is a data processing technique that lends itself to this kind of problem. Three common artificial neural network architectures - multi-layer feed-forward (MLFF), group method of...