A New Automated System for Decision Support in the Construction Industry
This paper describes a collaborative project to research and develop a computer based decision support system for the construction industry. The system is intended primarily for use during...
A Frame-Based Drawing Management System Based on Building Object Model
This paper presents current research issues on management of information and knowledge utilized in product design process based on building object model concept. The objective of research...
Knowledge Issues in Modeling
This paper aims at stressing the importance of the goal of modeling in identifying the underlying bodies of knowledge. It briefly describes the progression in complexity of modeling and...
Strengthening the Design/Construction Interface Using Electronic Imaging, Document Management and Work Flow Technologies
The paper describes a conceptual approach for the implementation of document imaging systems as a mechanism for strengthening the design/construction interface. The paper discusses some...
Applying Multimedia Technology to Project Control
Construction project control and documentation require an accurate, complete, and efficient way of collecting, storing, and retrieving project information. This information contains construction...
Capturing As-built Project Information for Facility Management
Complete, accurate, and timely provision of as-built information plays a critical role in the optimal upkeep of a facility. Facility operators/maintainers usually are delivered a constructed...
Progression of Computer Applications in Water Supply and Distribution Systems
Over the last two decades, computer applications in water supply and distribution systems have advanced rapidly from the stand-alone applications in system modeling to the integrated platform...
Development of an Expert System for Daily Drought Monitoring
A daily drought monitoring system was developed using the Clips Expert System software package. It consists of four components: (1) The knowledge base that contains rules in the form of...
Use of Expert Systems in Selecting Equilibrium Isotherms of Organic Compound Adsorption on Activated Carbon
An outline of an Expert System (ES) that aids in selecting adsorption isotherms is presented. Such an ES provides an efficient technique for screening the present literature. The ES helps...
A Decision Support System for the Expansion of International Operations of A/E/C Firms
The changing trend of the construction industry will require A/E/C firms to consider expanding operations in the international construction market arena. This paper presents a conceptual...
An Integrated Computer Model for Project Schedule Updating
Current schedule updating techniques rely mainly on field reports to specify completed work. Information provided in these reports are then manually summarized, analyzed, and input to...
Building Product Model, A First Brick in Computer Integrated Construction
This paper describes the development of a product model as a basis for an information system. This new approach is based on modelling functions of building units rather than physical entities...
Deductive Databases in Engineering
Many engineering systems can be modeled in terms of objects and relationships among objects. As generalized relational databases, deductive databases provide a suitable tool for representing...
SCADA System Controls Combined Sewer Overflow Regulation System to Optimize Wastewater Collection
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District's Overflow Regulation System (ORS) project uses computer control of a wastewater collection system for the purpose of combined sewage overflow...
Overflow Elimination Benefits from GIS Based Technology
Elimination of wet weather overflows through the rehabilitation of infiltration and inflow defects requires careful analysis of the collection system. The integration of geographic information...
Sewers and Computers
The following is a description of a project performed to reduce excessive infiltration and inflow in a municipal sanitary sewer system and to provide the municipality with a computerized...
Machine Learning in Civil Engineering ? Important Issues and Challenges
In recent years, machine learning techniques have been applied to help overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck of knowledge-based systems in civil engineering. This paper identifies...
Towards Practical Machine Learning Techniques
Most research on the application of machine learning to engineering problems have solved artificial problems. While research claimed to have reached results that would improve practice,...
A Machine Learning Decision Support System for Collaborative Design
The research described in this paper is motivated by the complexity surrounding the development of decision support systems (DSSs) for collaborative design processes. If one realizes that...
The Development of an Expert System Used in Preliminary Design of Concrete Bridges
The importance of the selection of the best design on the one hand and the available knowledge, on the other during the preliminary design process asks after a different kind of software...
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