Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Maximizing Slack in Resource-Constrained Schedules: A Heuristic Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The need for a standard measure of slack in resource-constrained schedules has been well documented. Several procedures have been proposed to serve this need. Resource allocation plays a central role in almost all of these ... -
Multiagent Systems in Construction: A Ten-Year Review
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This study critically reviews multiagent systems (MAS) in construction. Given their autonomous, cooperative, and learning attributes, MAS are a promising approach to address the essential problems of collaboration and ... -
Agent-Based Debt Terms’ Bargaining Model to Improve Negotiation Inefficiency in PPP Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The negotiation of the debt terms of public-private partnership (PPP) projects is time consuming and expensive. Although attempts have been made to examine this negotiation inefficiency, there still lacks a theoretical ... -
SenStore: A Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Platform for Implementation of Data-to-Decision Frameworks for Infrastructure Health Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Structural monitoring systems are an objective and quantitative-based management tool that have been developed to assist structure owners with their diagnostic and prognostic decision making processes. As sensing technologies ... -
Bounding Box–Based Technique for Pavement Crack Classification and Measurement Using 1 mm 3D Laser Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Pavement crack classification is important for pavement distress condition rating and the subsequent maintenance and rehabilitation activities. Substantial research and field efforts have been dedicated to developing a ... -
Proposed Algorithms for an Efficient System Reliability-Based Design Optimization of Truss Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The design optimization considering the system reliability of a structural system is a computationally challenging task. This is especially the case in an indeterminate structure that has many possible modes or paths to ... -
A Novel Relevance Vector Machine Classifier with Cuckoo Search Optimization for Spatial Prediction of Landslides
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In mountainous regions, landslides are the typical disasters that have brought about significant losses of human life and property. Therefore, the capability of making accurate landslide assessments is very useful for ... -
Automated 3D Wireframe Modeling of Indoor Structures from Point Clouds Using Constrained Least-Squares Adjustment for As-Built BIM
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Automated three-dimensional (3D) modeling of building interiors for an as-built building information model (BIM) incurs critical difficulties because of the complex design of indoor structures and a variety of clutter from ... -
Railway Timetable Rescheduling Based on Priority and Train Order Entropy
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)How to reschedule the railway timetable is an important problem in real train operations and management. The main purpose of dispatchers is to minimize the total delay time in the network, which is the sum of time difference ... -
Optimizing Contractor Selection for Construction Packages in Capital Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In capital construction projects, the contractor selection process is executed in the front-end planning phase based on the experience and judgment of the project leadership team, whose members are considered experts. A ... -
Developed Swarm Optimizer: A New Method for Sizing Optimization of Water Distribution Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The introduction of metaheuristic algorithms in water resources engineering has greatly raised the need for continued development of appropriate optimization methodologies for analysis, planning, design, and operation of ... -
Smart Construction Objects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The primary aim of this research is to define smart construction objects (SCOs), the fundamental building blocks of future construction. SCOs are construction resources (e.g., machinery, device, and materials) that ... -
Multi-Agent Simulation of Hydraulic Transient Equations in Pressurized Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Computational modeling pervades virtually every industrial process. By using numerical representations of the behavior of elements that constitute a system it is possible to obtain efficient and safe designs. Moreover, ... -
Classification of Rockburst in Underground Projects: Comparison of Ten Supervised Learning Methods
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Rockburst prediction is of crucial importance to the design and construction of many underground projects. Insufficient knowledge, lack of characterizing information, and noisy data restrain rock mechanics engineers from ... -
Parallel Systems and Structural Frames Realignment Planning and Actuation Strategy
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Parallel structural systems and assemblies are challenging to erect, align and plumb on construction sites due to their complex geometries and current heuristic realignment strategies. Examples of parallel systems include ... -
Solving Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problems Using Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony with Differential Evolution
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Solving resource-constrained (RC) project scheduling problems is one the most important tasks in the project planning process. This study presents a new hybrid approach, named Artificial Bee Colony with Differential ... -
Spectral-Based Damage Identification in Structures under Ambient Vibration
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The motivation behind this paper is to develop a spectral-based damage detection and damage localization scheme using in-service ambient vibration in the context of non–model-based damage characterization. In this regard, ... -
Conceptual Design of Suspension Bridges: From Concept to Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The structural design paradigm has evolved from an engineering-oriented approach to a holistic one that accommodates various concerns including form, function, behavior, economy, efficiency, and elegance. Because as many ... -
Fracture Mechanics-Based and Continuum Damage Modeling Approach for Prediction of Crack Initiation and Propagation in Integral Abutment Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Piles in integral abutment bridges (IABs) are prone to fatigue damage crack attributable to cyclic load caused by daily and seasonal temperature variations. Previous research has shown that the fatigue life of these piles ... -
Method to Improve Seismic Performance of RC Moment-Resisting Frames Using Geometric Optimization
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This article presents an optimization method to determine the column dimensions that maximize the fundamental frequency of a building, which translates into a highly efficient computational algorithm for approximately ...