Download or read book A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Model Delays in Construction Projects written by Hanouf M. Al-Humaidi and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different fuzzy logic models are implemented into the fuzzy fault tree analysis, using Visual Basic software, these models are Baldwin's rotational model, the Angular model, the Translational model and the Triangular model. Recommendation of the fuzzy logic model that is best applied to a given scenario needs further sensitivity analysis and is beyond the scope of this research. Validation of the fuzzy fault tree analysis computer model is performed. Some suggestions by experts are implemented into the computer model while other suggestions are deferred to future research. The computer software suggested by this study is an attempt to help reduce delays in construction projects that can cause time loss.

Download or read book The Application of Fuzzy Logic for Managerial Decision Making Processes written by Andreas Meier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the latest research and applications of fuzzy management methods for business decisions. It showcases a broad set of applications and discusses topics such as measures for the quality of analytics outcomes in big data environments; how fuzzy management methods support the inclusion of human thinking and human behavior in decision making processes; how to generate better results with fuzzy management methods in cases of imprecise information; new personalization concepts enabled by fuzzy logic for the offering of customized products and services especially in the electronic market; and lastly the application of fuzzy analysis for executives using natural rather than computer language. The combination of research papers and case studies makes it a valuable resource both for researchers and practitioners in the digital economy.

Download or read book Fuzzy Time delay Model in Fault tree Analysis for Critical Path Method written by Obada Alsaqqa and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction projects are always expected to be delayed, but the likelihood of a delay varies between projects because of the particular circumstances and schedule for that project. It is usually left to the scheduler to estimate these future circumstances of the project when preparing the schedule and determining the duration of the project. However, the schedule of the Critical Path Method (CPM) does not indicate the factors that are assumed to participate in determining the likelihood for delay. These deterministic durations, apart from the relationship between the activities, are the dominant contributor to the critical path in the CPM calculation. Risk management focuses on the processes that are considered critical, although delay may emerge from non-critical paths. In this study, a new fuzzy model is proposed to provide a subjective assessment of the likelihood of delay for activities in different periods. Using this model, the scheduler's assessment of the likelihood of delay for each activity can be combined to determine the likelihood of a project delay. This process is done utilizing fuzzy logic and fault-tree analysis and is then combined with the CPM schedule of the project. The result is a fuzzy fault-tree that shows the potential delay of the project and its contributing paths. Applying this method on a sample project, the results show that risk of delay comes not only from critical paths but also from non-critical paths. Consequently, the CPM schedule duration can be reevaluated such that the project can be rescheduled to account for the new findings and, at the very least, the risk of delay can be accounted for.

Download or read book Issues in Land and Water Engineering 2011 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Land and Water Engineering / 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Land and Water Engineering. The editors have built Issues in Land and Water Engineering: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Land and Water Engineering in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Land and Water Engineering: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Download or read book New Perspectives on Virtual and Augmented Reality written by Linda Daniela and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Perspectives on Virtual and Augmented Reality discusses the possibilities of using virtual and augmented reality in the role of innovative pedagogy, where there is an urgent need to find ways to teach and support learning in a transformed learning environment. Technology creates opportunities to learn differently and presents challenges for education. Virtual reality solutions can be exciting, create interest in learning, make learning more accessible and make learning faster. This book analyses the capabilities of virtual, augmented and mixed reality by providing ideas on how to make learning more effective, how existing VR/AR solutions can be used as learning tools and how a learning process can be structured. The virtual reality (VR) solutions can be used successfully for educational purposes as their use can contribute to the construction of knowledge and the development of metacognitive processes. They also contribute to inclusive education by providing access to knowledge that would not otherwise be available. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the field of educational technology.

Download or read book Advances in Construction Management written by Lee Yee Loon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Construction Materials and Management (ACMM 2021). It discusses the recent innovations towards construction management, building technology and new materials in practice in civil engineering. Various topics covered include architecture and urban planning, smart materials and structures, GIS in construction application, transportation materials and engineering, geotechnical applications in construction, energy and sustainability, green building technologies and materials and construction management. The book will be useful for beginners, researchers and professionals working in the area of civil engineering.

Download or read book Global Business Expansion Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 1792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As businesses seek to compete on a global stage, they must be constantly aware of pressures from all levels: regional, local, and worldwide. The organizations that can best build advantages in diverse environments achieve the greatest success. Global Business Expansion: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on the emergence of new ideas and opportunities in various markets and provides organizational leaders with the tools they need to be successful. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as market entry strategies, transnational organizations, and competitive advantage, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for researchers, scholars, business executives and professionals, and graduate-level business students.

Download or read book Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers written by American Society of Civil Engineers and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 29-30 contain papers of the International Engineering Congress, Chicago, 1893; v. 54, pts. A-F, papers of the International Engineering Congress, St. Louis, 1904.

Download or read book Advances in Construction Materials and Sustainable Environment written by Ashok Kumar Gupta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Construction Materials and Environment (ICCME 2020). The topics discussed revolve around the identification and utilization of novel construction materials primarily in the areas of structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, and environmental engineering. The volume presents a compilation of thoroughly studied and utilized sustainable construction materials in different areas of civil engineering. Newly developed testing methodologies, physical modelling methods, numerical studies, and other latest techniques discussed in this book can prove to be useful for researchers and practitioners across the globe.

Download or read book Performance and Improvement of Green Construction Projects written by Bon-Gang Hwang and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance and Improvement of Green Construction Projects: Management Strategies and Innovations expertly explains the specific characteristics and management approaches of green construction projects using in-depth examples that compare presented tactics to conventional construction projects. The book provides a holistic view on management strategies and innovations, focusing on the assessment and improvement of green construction projects and how to manage performance with respect to cost, scheduling, quality, safety, risk, productivity and leadership development. Addresses performance improvement and project management in green construction projects, covering cost, scheduling, safety, quality, risk, productivity and leadership Clearly explains the obstacles, challenges and barriers to implementing green construction projects Discusses special issues that are inherent in green construction projects, from inception to delivery

Download or read book Fuzzy Hybrid Computing in Construction Engineering and Management written by Aminah Robinson Fayek and published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide for students, researchers, and practitioners to the latest developments in fuzzy hybrid computing in construction engineering and management. It discusses basic theory related to fuzzy logic and fuzzy hybrid computing, their application in a range of practical construction problems, and emerging and future research trends.

Download or read book Risk Management in Engineering and Construction written by Stephen Ogunlana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s businesses are driven by customer ‘pull’ and technological ‘push’. To remain competitive in this dynamic business world, engineering and construction organizations are constantly innovating with new technology tools and techniques to improve process performance in their projects. Their management challenge is to save time, reduce cost and increase quality and operational efficiency. Risk management has recently evolved as an effective method of managing both projects and operations. Risk is inherent in any project, as managers need to plan projects with minimal knowledge and information, but its management helps managers to become proactive rather than reactive. Hence, it not only increases the chance of project achievement, but also helps ensure better performance throughout its operations phase. Various qualitative and quantitative tools are researched extensively by academics and routinely deployed by practitioners for managing risk. These have tremendous potential for wider applications. Yet the current literature on both the theory and practice of risk management is widely scattered. Most of the books emphasize risk management theory but lack practical demonstrations and give little guidance on the application of those theories. This book showcases a number of effective applications of risk management tools and techniques across product and service life in a way useful for practitioners, graduate students and researchers. It also provides an in-depth understanding of the principles of risk management in engineering and construction.

Download or read book Recent Trends in Transportation Infrastructure Volume 2 written by Amit Agarwal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the select proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Conception to Execution (TIPCE 2022) at IIT Roorkee and emphasizes the understanding of transportation infrastructure projects being conceptualized, designed, and executed so as to bring the desired development in the focused area. It comprises case studies from the transportation sector, construction industries, consulting agencies, and research and academic institutions. These studies present the bottlenecks experienced during the implementation of the projects, from their conceptualization to their execution and the corrective measures that were incorporated to finish the work. The book will be a valuable reference for beginners, researchers, and professionals interested in construction planning and technology, infrastructure engineering, highway engineering, traffic and transportation planning and systems.

Download or read book A Fuzzy Hybrid Intelligent Model for Project Competencies and Performance Evaluation and Prediction in the Construction Industry written by Moataz N. Omar and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary construction environments, construction companies measure their performance against a set of predefined performance indicators. These performance indicators are governed by the ability of the company to maintain necessary sets of "competencies" that empower the successful execution of construction projects. Competencies in general are difficult to define and measure due to the multidimensional and subjective nature of their assessment. Additionally, there is little consensus on the performance indicators that capture the different critical aspects of how well a construction project is performing. This thesis expands the body of knowledge on project competencies and performance by demonstrating the power of fuzzy logic combined with other artificial intelligence modeling (i.e., neural networks) in developing a model capable of identifying the relationship between the different project competencies and project performance on construction projects. First, this research identifies 41 project competencies with a total of 248 criteria for evaluating the different project competencies. Appropriate measurement scales are developed for the different project competencies' evaluation criteria. This research also identifies seven performance categories with 46 key project performance indicators. Second, a systematic framework and methodology are developed to measure project competencies and project key performance indicators on construction projects. Finally, several state of the art techniques are developed and applied to model the relationship between project competencies and project performance namely: 1) a new prioritized aggregation method, 2) a dimensionality reduction technique, and 3) a fuzzy hybrid intelligent model incorporating fuzzy logic and artificial neural networks. The new prioritized aggregation method is developed in this research to consider the prioritized relationship between criteria pertaining to the different project competencies. This prioritized aggregation method is developed for both crisp and fuzzy environments. Then, a dimensionality reduction technique, through the application of feature extraction, is applied to reduce the dimensionality of the model input (i.e., project competencies) and enhance its capability in providing more accurate outputs (i.e., key project performance indicators). Finally, granular AND/OR fuzzy neural networks are constructed using fuzzy logic and artificial neural networks to identify and map the relationship between the different project competencies and project key performance indicators. Data collected from seven construction projects are used to train and test the developed granular AND/OR fuzzy neural networks. This thesis contributes to the current body of knowledge in project competencies and performance by establishing a standardized framework and methodology for evaluating the impact of construction project competencies on key project performance indicators. Furthermore, this thesis applies advanced modeling techniques through the application of fuzzy logic and artificial neural networks to identify and model the relationship between project competencies and project key performance indicators.

Download or read book Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering and Architecture written by J. N. Reddy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-12 with total page 1973 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes articles from the Third International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering and Architecture (ICSSEA 2023), held at Da Nang City, Vietnam, on July 19-21, 2023. The conference brings together international experts from both academia and industry to share their knowledge and expertise, facilitate collaboration, and improve cooperation in the field. The book focuses on the most recent developments in sustainable architecture and civil engineering, including offshore structures, structural engineering, building materials, and architecture.

Download or read book Recent Advances in Sustainable Environment written by Krishna R. Reddy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Sustainable Environment (RAiSE 2022). It discusses recent challenges and advances in various areas of sustainable environment. The topics covered include environmental dynamics, atmospheric physics, physical oceanography, global environmental change & ecosystems management, climate & climatic changes, global warming, ozone layer depletion, carbon capture & storage, integrated ecosystems management, satellite applications in the environment, environmental restoration & ecological engineering, habitat reconstruction, biodiversity conservation, deforestation, landscape degradation & restoration, ground water remediation, soil decontamination, environmental sustainability, renewable sources of energy, clean technologies, toxicity assessment & epidemiological studies, indoor air pollution, etc. This book will be useful for the researches, academicians, scientists, and professionals working in the various areas of environment sustainability, especially sustainable civil engineering.

Download or read book Fuzzy Inference System written by Mohammad Fazle Azeem and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to accumulate the researches on diverse inter disciplinary field of engineering and management using Fuzzy Inference System (FIS). The book is organized in seven sections with twenty two chapters, covering a wide range of applications. Section I, caters theoretical aspects of FIS in chapter one. Section II, dealing with FIS applications to management related problems and consisting three chapters. Section III, accumulates six chapters to commemorate FIS application to mechanical and industrial engineering problems. Section IV, elaborates FIS application to image processing and cognition problems encompassing four chapters. Section V, describes FIS application to various power system engineering problem in three chapters. Section VI highlights the FIS application to system modeling and control problems and constitutes three chapters. Section VII accommodates two chapters and presents FIS application to civil engineering problem.