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The Science in Human Intuition: Optimum Bid Markup Calculations in Competitive Bidding Environments Using Probabilistic Neural Networks
(2000)
The study presented in this paper seeks the development of a model to be used by the construction industry for optimum bid markup calculations in static and non-static competitive bidding environments. The framework presented ...
A bid-unbalancing method for lowering a contractor's financial risk
(2008)
A method is presented for unbalancing bids and optimizing the allocation of overall project profits to individual activities by considering the financial parameters of a project (bid mark-up and projected cash flow), in ...
Construction imitating ants: Resource-unconstrained scheduling with artificial ants
(2009-05)
The paper presents a methodology to arrive at critical path calculations in construction networks by imitating the natural selection processes utilized by real-life ants in search of shortest paths to a food source, and ...