Application of Fuzzy Logic and SNA Tools to Assessment of Communication Quality between Construction Project Participants
, Oleksandr Khomenko 3, Yuliia Trach 1,2, Oleksii Kulikov 4, Maksym Druzhynin 3, Nataliia Kishchak 3, Galyna Ryzhakova 3, Hanna Petrenko 3, Dmytro Prykhodko 3 and Olha ObodÑ–anska 5Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Author,
Address the following queries.
1. What is the significance of using 17 participants in this study?
2. Compare Fuzzy logic and Social Network Analysis in the introduction part.
3. Table 1 needs more discussion in the text.
4. What is the significance of communication quality in this study?
5. Figures 2 and 3 need some more clarity.
6. Add few more latest references in the manuscript.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
We sincerely thank you for your time and useful suggestions to improve our research. We tried to take into account all your comments and remarks.
with best regards Authors
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Reviewer 2 Report
The manuscript addresses an exciting and contemporary topic concerning communication quality between construction project participants. Moreover, the findings of this research study could efficiently be applied in the reconstruction program in Ukraine. However, the manuscript needs to be improved considerably. In this regard, the main comment of the reviewer is to reconsider the manuscript’s organization. For instance, the Result section embraces the method explanation. Another example is in the Discussion and conclusion section; there is a part that reviews previous literature. Also, the reviewer would like to suggest the authors reconsider the manuscript based on the following comments:
- Abstract needs to be improved by adding some sections, such as the problem statement and/or the importance of the research.
- There are some sentences without scientific justification. For instance, “The authors suggested using accuracy, information flow, barriers, gatekeeping, procedures, completeness, timeliness, overload, underload, distortion, understanding as variables affecting communication.” In this case, the authors need to explain scientifically why they suggested these variables/factors. Another example, “The authors used fuzzy concepts such as triangular fuzzy numbers and linguistic variables due to the imprecise nature of the problem.” In this case, the question is why the authors believe in the problem’s imprecise nature.
- Please avoid using personal pronouns as much as possible.
- There are some sentences with the same concept in the manuscript. Please try to avoid repeating sentences with the same meaning.
- It seems the caption of Fig. 1 needs to be corrected, as Fig. 1 is not “algorithm”.
- In line 112, “The authors study nine aspects that affect the quality of communication.”, what are the nine aspects? Or in line 123, “Thomas et al. [23] classified communication assessment factors into six categories and measured the communication effectiveness.” Please refer to Table 1.
- In Table 1, please provide a brief explanation for each factor.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
We sincerely thank you for your time and useful suggestions to improve our research. We tried to take into account all your comments and remarks.
with best regards Authors
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
The manuscript has been improved considerably. Good luck!
