TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bentotage,Sunil Nandalal
AU  - Ogunlana,Stephen O.
AU  - Arditi,David
AU  - Maekawa,Koichi
ED  - King's Scholarship,
ED  - The Royal Thai Government,
TI  - Expert system for scheduling and control of highway construction projects
T2  - Thesis
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Bangkok
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Scheduling (Management)
KW  - Road construction industry
KW  - Management
KW  - Expert systems (Computer science)
N1  - A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of  Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology; Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1992
N2  - Activities involved in highway construction, their precedence relations and the activity  durations are highly dependent on site, environmental and management conditions. Depending  on those conditions, the number of options available to perform the same activity under different  situations is found to be very high. Computerized support on the generation of construction  schedules is currently limited to the provision of network for manually defined and sequenced  activities. With the development of the expert system technology, it has been possible to develop  a knowledge based expert system, ROAD PLANNER to deal with such situations. Knowledge ac quisition, formulation of the elicited knowledge and building of both data bases and rule bases  are the three major phases involved in the. system development. Eleven main activities to be  present in the majority of highway projects, have been defined at its root level of the system.  According to the user information on the existence of above main activities, the system generates  the precedence relationships. Consequently, several rule bases and data bases interact to generate  sub activities and activity durations by extracting necessary information from the user. Prece dence network technique has been considered to express the relation among activities as most  highway construction activities are found to be parallel. Concept on the 'required completion  before the commencement of successor' has been extended towards the consequent derivation of  lead and lag times
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