Optimization and Control Methods in Industrial Engineering and Construction

This book presents recent advances in optimization and control methods with applications to industrial engineering and construction management. It consists of 15 chapters authored by recognized experts in a variety of fields including control and operation research, industrial engineering, and proje...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Xu, Honglei (Editor), Wang, Xiangyu (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Series:Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 72
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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Summary:This book presents recent advances in optimization and control methods with applications to industrial engineering and construction management. It consists of 15 chapters authored by recognized experts in a variety of fields including control and operation research, industrial engineering, and project management. Topics include numerical methods in unconstrained optimization, robust optimal control problems, set splitting problems, optimum confidence interval analysis, a monitoring networks optimization survey, distributed fault detection, nonferrous industrial optimization approaches, neural networks in traffic flows, economic scheduling of CCHP systems, a project scheduling optimization survey, lean and agile construction project management, practical construction projects in Hong Kong, dynamic project management, production control in PC4P, and target contracts optimization.   The book offers a valuable reference work for scientists, engineers, researchers and practitioners in industrial engineering and construction management.
Physical Description:X, 296 p. 63 illus., 39 illus. in color. online resource.
ISBN:9789401780445
ISSN:2213-8986 ;