Internet-based collaborative decision-making system for construction

This article presents an Internet-based prototype decision-making system that is designed to ease the difficulties experienced by geographically distributed construction project team members in collaborative decision-making. Its generic features make it applicable to a variety of collaborative decis...

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Published in:Advances in engineering software (1992) 2004-06, Vol.35 (6), p.357-371
Main Authors: Chim, Mei Y., Anumba, Chimay J., Carrillo, Patricia M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Client–server
Collaborative decision-making
Concurrent engineering
Fuzzy logic
Linguistic variables
Membership function
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Summary:This article presents an Internet-based prototype decision-making system that is designed to ease the difficulties experienced by geographically distributed construction project team members in collaborative decision-making. Its generic features make it applicable to a variety of collaborative decision-making scenarios. The system allows a decision-making team's members to contribute their views on an issue via a client–server system. It encourages objectivity and deals with the ‘adversarial culture’ in construction project teams through the integration of all team members' views and weighting each decision-maker's importance for a specific decision-making issue. The system also has the ability to handle fuzziness during the process of collaborative decision-making. A hypothetical decision-making scenario is used to demonstrate the prototype system's implementation and operational processes.
ISSN:0965-9978
DOI:10.1016/j.advengsoft.2004.03.007