Browsing by Subject "Construction"
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Assessing the effect of inherent nonlinearities in the analysis and design of a low-rise base isolated steel building
(2013)Seismic isolation is an effective method for the protection of buildings and their contents during strong earthquakes. This research work aims to assess the appropriateness of the linear and nonlinear models that can be ...
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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 ...
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Disorder considerations in resource-constrained scheduling
(2009)A method is presented for allocating resources to construction activities and for scheduling construction projects under resource constraints by considering the effects that such resource limitations may have on the tendency ...
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Disorder considerations in resource-constrained scheduling
A method is presented for allocating resources to construction activities and for scheduling construction projects under resource constraints by considering the effects that such resource limitations may have on the tendency ...
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Scheduling Resource-Constrained Projects with Ant Colony Optimization Artificial Agents
(2010)The paper presents a methodology to schedule resource-constrained construction projects by use of algorithms based on ant colony optimization (ACO)
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A study on the attitudes and behavioural influence of construction waste management in occupied Palestinian territory
(2012)As a step towards comprehending what drives the management of construction waste in the occupied Palestinian territory, this paper quantifies construction waste generation and examines how the local contractors' waste ...
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