Among other concerns, construction planning involves the choice of construction technology, the definition of work tasks, the estimation of required resources and durations, the estimation of costs, and the preparation of a project schedule. A prototype knowledge intensive expert system to accomplish these tasks, CONSTRUCTION PLANEX, is described in this paper. This system generates project act...

java is an object-oriented program that has abundant open-source libraries for application development and 3d model rendering. spatial database is the database that can efficiently store and manage geographic information data though various spatial data management techniques. this paper explores the rationale of coupling java with spatial database to develop an effective platform for future bui...

assessment of risks is a key task in the project management. in this process, risk breakdown structure (rbs) approach can be utilized to identify project relevant risks. in the previous classical method, only limited number of attributes is considered in the evaluation that can cause unreliable results. in this paper, an attempt has been made to introduce and involve a relatively comprehensive ...

The construction project is a business full of risk in every process due to its complexity, changes, and involvement from various stakeholders. One of the critical risks in the construction project is in the supply chain. Identifying and assessing the risk with the right tools and methods in that area will inevitably affect the success of the project. Unfortunately, the research for the tools a...

purpose: manuscripts as written works of past generations are important collections in research and university libraries in iran. they convey useful information about different subject areas. the need to this enormous amount of information emphasis on their organization and the application of the new electronic information technologies. methodology: regarding to the presence of more than 5,000 ...