CIFECENTER FOR INTEGRATED FACILITY ENGINEERING Compensatory Negotiation for Agent-Based Project Schedule Optimization and Coordination

CIFECENTER FOR INTEGRATED FACILITY ENGINEERING Compensatory Negotiation for Agent-Based Project Schedule Coordination

Practitioners have tried to solve a project schedule coordination problem involving many subcontractors with a centralized approach, but failed to provide a cohesive solution. They have overlooked a principle that general contractors cannot coordinate subcontractors like they do their own forces. The project schedule coordination problem could be solved better by subcontractors in a distributed...

Compensatory Negotiation for Agent-Based Project Schedule Coordination

This paper presents a compensatory negotiation methodology for agent-based project schedule coordination — a framework wherein a project can be rescheduled dynamically by all of the concerned project participants. The compensatory negotiation methodology is developed to allow agents to transfer utility to other agents for compensation of disadvantageous agreements through a multi-linked negotia...

CIFECENTER FOR INTEGRATED FACILITY ENGINEERING Observation, Theory, and Simulation of Integrated Concurrent Engineering: Grounded Theoretical Factors that Enable Radical Project Acceleration

CIFECENTER FOR INTEGRATED FACILITY ENGINEERING Observation, Theory, and Simulation of Integrated Concurrent Engineering: Risk Analysis Using Formal Models of Radical Project Acceleration

A Multi-objective optimization model for project scheduling with time-varying resource requirements and capacities

Proper and realistic scheduling is an important factor of success for every project. In reality, project scheduling often involves several objectives that must be realized simultaneously, and faces numerous uncertainties that may undermine the integrity of the devised schedule. Thus, the manner of dealing with such uncertainties is of particular importance for effective planning. A realistic sc...