Artificial Intelligence Integrated Construction Simulation Method

The interactive, complicated system environment of a§construction site renders the conventional site§layout planning and scheduling inadequate§in coping with the materials handling§in construction. Although simulation provides a§promising solution to construction planning, the§complexity and time requirement involved in§constructing a simulation model along with the§difficulty in decoding simulation output data keep§practicing engineers from employing simulation tools§in practice. This book introduces you an innovative§construction operations simulation called Simplified§Discrete-Event Simulation Approach (SDESA), which§provide you an accurate simulation tool with minimum§learning and modeling effort. Furthermore, the§Artificial Neural Networks-based sensitivity analysis§is integrated to it to perform instant data mining§and knowledge discovery from the construction§simulations result data. By implementing the§simplified, intelligent construction simulation§method as developed, practicing engineers would be§capable and confident to draw up the best§construction plan that would lead to the enhancement§of cost-effectiveness and productivity in the field.