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A fuzzy system for evaluating the risk of change in construction projects

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posted on 2009-08-18, 15:54 authored by Ibrahim A. Motawa, Chimay J. Anumba, Ashraf El-HamalawiAshraf El-Hamalawi
A major source of risk in construction is the potential changes occurring during the project lifetime. Changes in construction projects often result from the uncertainty associated with the imprecise and vague knowledge of much project information at the early stages of projects. IT systems for change management largely focus on managing reactive changes, in which changes are recorded and then propagated to the concerned project members. However, proactive change management is hardly dealt with. Proactive change management requires estimating the likelihood of occurrence of a change event as well as estimating the degree of change impacts on project parameters. A fuzzy system is proposed in this paper to maintain these requirements. The system simulates the relationships between change causes and effects, and is intended to facilitate proactive change management on projects.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Citation

MOTAWA, I.A., ANUMBA, C.J. and EL-HAMALAWI, A, 2006. A fuzzy system for evaluating the risk of change in construction projects. Advances in Engineering Software, 37(9), pp. 583-591.

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© Elsevier

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2006

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This article is Closed Access. It was published in the journal, Advances in Engineering Software [© Elsevier] and the definitive version is available at: www.elsevier.com/locate/advengsoft

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0965-9978

Language

  • en

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