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Ali, G M, Bouferguene, A and Al-Hussein, M (2023) Crane mat layout optimization based on agent-based greedy and reinforcement-learning approach. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149(08).

Darko, A, Glushakova, I, Boateng, E B and Chan, A P C (2023) Using machine learning to improve cost and duration prediction accuracy in green building projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149(08).

Do, Q, Moriyani, M A, Le, C and Le, T (2023) Cost-weighted tf-idf: A novel approach for measuring highway project similarity based on pay items' cost composition and term frequency. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149(08).

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: natural language processing; project bundling; project clustering; project similarity; term frequency-inverse document frequency
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
  • URL: http://doi.org/10.1061/JCEMD4.COENG-13023
  • Abstract:
    State highway agencies (SHAs) often need to cluster or bundle projects in accordance with their scope similarity for various construction management tasks, including historical data-driven time, cost estimating, and project bundling. Conventionally, SHAs categorize similar projects into work types based on subjective judgment about the similarity between major pay items. A few quantitative methods for project similarity determination are found in the literature, but they mostly use one single source of information, either the cost contribution of pay items or the keywords of pay items descriptions, for measuring project similarity. This paper presents the first attempt to integrate multiple information sources for project similarity measurement. This research proposes a novel cost-weighted term frequency-inverse document frequency (CW-TF-IDF) method that incorporates the cost information of pay items into the traditional TF-IDF word embedding method to measure project similarity. The effectiveness of the proposed method in supporting project clustering and bundling was tested using the historical bid data collected from an SHA. The findings showed that the CW-TF-IDF method significantly improves project clustering performance compared to the most recent state-of-the-art method. The CW-TF-IDF method also showed its outperformance in project bundling as it yielded a cosine similarity of over 0.9 for most of the bundled projects in the testing data. This proposed method is expected to help SHAs accurately identify similar projects and eventually improve their project management effectiveness.

Huang, C, Wang, Z K, Li, B, Wang, C, Xu, L S, Jiang, K, Liu, M, Guo, C X, Zhao, X F and Yang, H (2023) Discretized cell modeling for optimal layout of multiple tower cranes. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149(08).

Kar, S and Jha, K N (2023) Examining the effect of material management practices on material availability and waste reduction in construction projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149(08).

Leung, M Y, Wei, X and Wang, C (2023) Demystifying critical success factors for applying value management in construction projects along the belt and road regions: Focus group study. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149(08).

Li, Q, Jiang, M, Tao, S, Hao, J and Chong, H Y (2023) The integrated problem of construction project scheduling and multiskilled staff assignment with learning effect. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149(08).

Li, Y, He, N, Zhang, Y, Li, H and Zhang, C (2023) Optimization of capital structure for urban water PPP projects using mezzanine financing: Sustainable perspective. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149(08).

Li, Y, Zhu, L, Xue, R and Han, Y (2023) How policy diffusion influences regional BIM innovation: An empirical study in China. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149(08).

Pooladvand, S and Hasanzadeh, S (2023) Impacts of stress on workers' risk-taking behaviors: Cognitive tunneling and impaired selective attention. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149(08).

Shang, M, Zhang, Y, He, Z, Qiao, H, Liu, X, Feng, Q, Xue, C, Zhang, Y, Su, F, Wang, J, Han, Y and Meng, X (2023) Workability properties of specified density concrete with municipal solid waste incinerator tailings added as a lightweight aggregate. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149(08).

Shrestha, K (2023) Cost comparison of highway rest area operations: In-house workforce versus outsourcing methods. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149(08).

Tan, L, Zhang, Y, Chen, Y and Zhu, T (2023) A multiple-objective decision-support model for lighting maintenance routing considering carbon dioxide emissions and balanced workload. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149(08).