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Distributed Coordination of Project Schedule Changes: An Agent-Based Compensatory Negotiation Approach  

Kim Kee-Soo (㈜대우건설 기술연구소 연구기획팀)
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Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management / v.4, no.2, 2003 , pp. 74-81 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the construction industry, projects are becoming increasingly large and complex, involving multiple subcontractors. Traditional centralized coordination techniques used by the general contractors become less effective as subcontractors perform most wok and provide their own resources. When subcontractors cannot provide enough resources, they hinder their own performance as well as that of other subconractors and ultimately the entire project Thus, construction projects need a new distributed coordination approach wherein all of the concerned subcontractors can reschedule a project dynamically. To enable the distributed coordination framework of project schedule changes, the author developed an agent-based compensatory negotiation methodology, which allows intelligent software agents to simulate negotiations on behalf of their human subcontractors. In addition to this theoretical work, 1 designed and implemented a prototype to demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework. Thus, this research formalizes the necessary steps that would help construction project participants to increase the efficiency of their resource use, which in turn will enhance successful completions of whole projects.
Keywords
Scheduling; Project management; Software agent; Distributed coordination;
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