Intelligent Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methodologies in Building and Construction Management
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 72174
Special Issue Editors
Interests: uncertainty; decision theory and method; multicriteria decision making; operation research; soft computing; comptational modelling
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Interests: civil engineering; multiple-criteria decision making; multiple-criteria optimization in construction technology and management; sustainability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Decision making is a key factor for achieving success in any discipline, especially in a field which requires handling large amounts of information and knowledge in building and construction management. Most construction processes and procedures are a compendium of many different tasks, processes, and requirements, involving a great variety of factors and aspects to consider. In this manner, making decisions in such environments can often be an arduous and difficult operation. For these reasons, the need for a mechanism capable of assisting the characterization of such complex scenarios arises. Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) has emerged as a subdiscipline of operations research destined to facilitate the resolution of these issues. Moreover, due to the increasing uncertainty and complexity of objective characteristics, great attention has been paid to studying the application of MCDM in uncertain environments.
The main aim of this Special Issue is to explore the recent challenges and developments of intelligent MCDM approaches in buildings and construction management. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Decision analysis
- Uncertainty in MCDM
- New modeling in MCDM
- Measurement of performance in construction
- Building information modeling
- Reliability and maintenance engineering
- Transportation and logistics insights through MCDM
- Application of MCDM in building and construction management
Dr. S.A. Edalatpanah
Prof. Dr. Jurgita Antucheviciene
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multiple-criteria decision-making
- multi attribute decision making
- multi-objective modelling
- performance evaluation
- building management
- construction
- uncertainty
- optimization
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