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Applications of Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) in Planning and Design of Built Environments

  • Ali Khodabandelu;JeeWoong Park;Unmesa Ray
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2024.07a
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    • pp.606-612
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    • 2024
  • The modeling and simulation of built environments are crucial preliminary steps for their design, planning, and management. Among various simulation methods, agent-based modeling (ABM) has recently gained traction for simulating built environments due to its ability to effectively model and capture complex interactions between simulated entities. The increasing applications of ABM for the simulation of built environments necessitate a comprehensive review of past scientific endeavors with positive accomplishments and those that remain unsolved. This study seeks to address this gap by reviewing ABM and its applications in the simulation of built environments, with a specific focus on the planning and design phases. First, the research introduces ABM and its unique features concerning the simulation of built environments. Second, it conducts a systematic review of past studies in the planning (e.g., feasibility analysis, risk management, and scheduling under constraints) and design (e.g., automated design, collaborative design, improving operations, and facilitating evacuation) aspects of built environments. Finally, following the in-depth review and subsequent analysis, the study identifies the strengths and weaknesses of using ABM for simulating the built environments. The study concludes with a remark on potential future research directions to overcome the limitations of the existing studies.

A Ten-Year Analytical Comparative Study on the International Journal of Consumer Studies

  • Shin, Dongjin
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.12 no.7
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    • pp.63-75
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    • 2014
  • Purpose - This study analyzes topics discussed in the International Journal of Consumer Studies through a content analysis, to reveal the impact of cross-cultural management in consumer research. Research Design, Data, and Methodology - The International Journal of Consumer Studies has the highest impact factor among international consumer journals, and was chosen for research. This study investigated 712 articles, covering a ten-year period. Results - A total of 82 articles were found to be related to cross-cultural management, out of 712 articles. This shows a need for improvement in the area of cross-cultural management, and implies that the discipline of cross-cultural management will continue to have a significant impact on consumer studies. Conclusions - While content analyses have been conducted in the area of consumer research in the past, a comparative content analysis in the International Journal of Consumer Studies is unprecedented. This study offers insights on the comparative analysis of general articles and articles related to cross-cultural management, which will be useful reference points for future global markets and fields in distribution and consumer research.

A Study on the Enablers and Barriers of BIM-based Assembling Collaboration for Designers' Communication and Socio-Psychological Mechanisms (BIM기반의 어셈블링 협업이 설계자 간의 의사교환과 사회심리학적 기제에 미치는 효과와 한계에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Seung-Wan;Jeong, Yongwook
    • Journal of KIBIM
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.36-44
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    • 2017
  • While previous studies argue that BIM-based assembling collaboration promotes the communication and process management among participants in architectural design projects, it is still unknown which communication and socio-psychological factors are more and less activated in use of BIM-based collaboration. To investigate this research aim, in authentic BIM-used architectural retrofitting projects, the participants (N=36) collaborated and assessed the communication factors on (1) perceiving design results, (2)understanding partners'design intention, (3) proposing and converging opinions, the interpersonal design process management factors on (1) managing design process, (2) managing collaboration schedule, and the complementedness factors on (1) understanding partners' expertise, and comradeship. Statistical analyses reveal that the factor relevant to perceiving design results is better activated than the other factors (p<0.05), but all other factors are not much activated compared to perceiving design results. Deduced from the previous BIM studies and interviews, a reason roots in the shared forms and semantics of BIM. The shared semantics represent collaborators' information and allow the participants to perceive design changes explicitly. Meanwhile, BIM-based assembling collaboration is limited to represent observable, experience-able processes of design, and thus, several key socio-psychological factors, such as proposing and converging opinions and managing design process, are less activated.

A Study on the Functional Design of Classification Management System of Public Organizations (정부산하공공기관의 분류체계관리시스템 기능 설계 연구)

  • Oh, Jin Kwan
    • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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    • no.53
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    • pp.201-228
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    • 2017
  • Recently, public organizations have been improving the classification in order to introduce records management reference table in accordance with the act on the management of public archives. However, there is no system to mount the revised records management reference table, and there is a problem in usability. The purpose of this study is to design a system function to manage the classification which is the foundation of records management for public organizations. In order to design the function, interviews with the records management specialists of the five public organizations were conducted. Based on this, we have designed a multi-classification system registration function, a hierarchical structure setting function of records, and a record management standard management function.

A Process Management Framework for Design and Manufacturing Activities in a Distributed Environment (분산 환경하의 설계 및 제조활동을 위한 프로세스관리기법 연구)

  • Park, Hwa-Kyu;Kim, Hyun;Oh, Chi-Jae;Jung, Moon-Jung
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.21-37
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    • 1997
  • As the complexity in design and manufacturing activities of distributed virtual enterprises rapidly increases, the issue of process management becomes more critical to shorten the time-to-market, reduce the manufacturing cost and improve the product quality. This paper proposes a unified framework to manage design and manufacturing processes in a distributed environment. We present a methodology which utilizes process flow graphs to depict the hierarchical structure of workflows and process grammars to represent various design processes and design tools. To implement the proposed concept, we develop a process management system which mainly consists of a cockpit and manager programs, and we finally address a preliminary implementation procedure based on the Object Modeling Technique. Since the proposed framework can be a formal approach to the process management by providing formalism, parallelism, reusability, and flexibility, it can be effectively applied to further application domains of distributed virtual enterprises.

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