Abstract: Construction accidents cause many human tragedies, demotivate construction workers, disrupt construction processes, delay progress, and adversely affect the cost, productivity, and reputation of the construction industry. ...

Abstract: Expert knowledge and lessons learned in the construction phase of a project are not systematically incorporated into the design and construction phases of subsequent projects. The advancement of construction since ancient ...

Abstract: Knowledge representation and reasoning techniques derived from artificial intelligence (AI) research permit computers to generate plans, not merely analyze plans produced by humans. They explicitly represent knowledge about ...

Abstract: Enhancements to the theory of network‐based planning techniques invented in the late 1950s, along with improved hardware and software environments, have resulted in elegant and powerful tools for planning today's construction ...

Abstract: Generating a plan of correctly sequenced activities to achieve a stated goal under given constraints is a difficult task for either humans or computers. For any realistic planning problem, there are almost infinite ...