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Retailers' Response to the Global Economy Downturn — Enabling Immersive Shopping Experiences
To survive today’s economy, retailers must innovate to serve customers more effectively using tightly integrated CRM software suites. Read why.
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Simulating The Role Of Inter-Firm Relations In Construction On The Productive Implementation Of Innovations
This paper develops a multi-agent simulation model to explore the impact of inter-firm relations in construction industry interorganizational networks on the productive implementation of innovations....
Company: Stanford University
Date: October 2006 |
Stanford University |
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A Tabu Search Procedure For Generating Robust Project Baseline Schedules Under Stochastic Resource Availabilities
The majority of research efforts in project scheduling assume a static and deterministic environment with complete information. In practice, however, these assumptions will hardly, if...
Company: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Date: April 2006 |
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
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Using Virtual Reality To Improve Construction Engineering Education
This paper presents ongoing research to improve construction education through the use of virtual reality and 4D CAD (Computer Aided Design) modeling (3D design plus...
Company: Pennsylvania State University
Date: April 2003 |
Pennsylvania State University |
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Source Of Construction Industry Instability And Performance Problems
A few year study of construction performance has resulted in a conclusion that construction industry performance problems are being caused by the client's delivery process....
Company: Northumbria University
Date: April 2006 |
Northumbria University |
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Factors Influencing VDC Technology Diffusion On Construction Projects
Construction companies often try to introduce new technologies to stay competitive. Unfortunately, experiences show that construction management project teams adopt these new technologies only slowly....
Company: Stanford University
Date: July 2006 |
Stanford University |
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Modeling Systemic Innovation In Design And Construction Networks
This paper addresses the call in the innovation literature for fieldwork and theoretical research to better understand project-based forms of organizations. It contributes to a...
Company: Stanford University
Date: October 2005 |
Stanford University |
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Process Modeling Initiatives In The Construction Domain
The concept of intent has only been handled by the COMMIT model. The concept of performance is not common among the sample models. Few models...
Company: University of Toronto
Date: May 2006 |
University of Toronto |
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The Scope And Role Of Information Technology In Construction
To set the stage for the points this paper first summarize current use of Information Technology (IT) in construction. The last few years have seen...
Company: Stanford University
Date: February 2004 |
Stanford University |
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Evaluating IT Investments In Construction - Accounting For Strategic Flexibility
When investing in IT applications, Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) managers do not only obtain direct benefits, such as immediate cost and time savings, but also the option...
Company: Stanford University
Date: March 2003 |
Stanford University |
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Formalization Of Construction Sequencing Rationale & Classification Mechanism To Support Rapid Generation of Sequencing Alternatives
The ability to re-sequence activities is a critical task for project planners for effective project control. Re-sequencing activities requires planners to determine the impact or...
Company: Stanford University
Date: October 2006 |
Stanford University |
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A Semantic Architecture For The Management Of Highway Construction Supply Chains
This paper presents an architecture for the use of industry standards (such as ebXML and BPEL) to develop a semantic supply chain in highway construction....
Company: University of Toronto
Date: October 2005 |
University of Toronto |
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Formalizing Construction Sequencing Constraints For Rapid Generation Of Schedule Alternatives
Construction planners use CPM-based (Critical Path Method) schedules to represent the planned logical sequence of activities to perform a project. A construction schedule typically represents...
Company: Stanford University
Date: January 2003 |
Stanford University |
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Facilitating Construction Briefing - From The Client's Perspective
The call for improvement to conventional design and construction process in the construction industry is well reported. Essentially, the need for development is associated with...
Company: Chalmers University of Technology
Date: February 2005 |
Chalmers University of Technology |
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Next Generation Civil Construction
The industry has come to accept the productivity sapping inefficiencies of poor handoffs. The construction subculture takes on a "That is just the way it...
Company: American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
Date: March 2003 |
American Congress on Surveying and Mapping |
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Automated Detection And Updating Of Construction Activity Progress From Time-Lapse Images
A low cost progress data collection technique was proposed for construction sites using time-lapse video. The authors build on their existing research on 4D CAD...
Company: Stanford University
Date: October 2003 |
Stanford University |
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Managing And Communicating Project Information, Design Processes, And Decisions
Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) projects require multidisciplinary solutions. AEC professionals have formal methods to help them manage and communicate much of a single discipline's...
Company: Stanford University
Date: December 2005 |
Stanford University |
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The Inspections Of As-Built Construction Records By 3D Point Clouds
This paper establishes a method for recording and comparing the progress of an on-going construction site using 3D data retrieved by a 3D long-range laser...
Company: Stanford University
Date: August 2004 |
Stanford University |
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Nurturing A Knowledge Environment For International Construction Organizations Through Communities Of Practice
The purpose of this paper is to explore and test conceptual issues of how Communities Of Practice (CoPs) are a recognized means of transferring knowledge....
Company: RMIT University
Date: December 2006 |
RMIT University |
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Lessons Learned During Construction And Test Of The GLAST Large Area Telescope Tracker
The GLAST Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a satellite gamma-ray observatory de-signed to explore the sky in the energy range 20MeV ' 300GeV, a region...
Company: National Institute of Nuclear Physics
Date: August 2005 |
National Institute of Nuclear Physics |
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Evaluation Of Legal Risks For E-Commerce In Construction
E-commerce is steadily becoming a reality in the construction industry. However, despite the increasing rate of utilization by owners and contractors alike, the legal implications...
Company: University of Michigan
Date: October 2006 |
University of Michigan |
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Construction Partnering: Can These Protocols Build A Stronger Labor-Management Community?
In an expansive marketplace where large organizations in the construction, manufacturing, service and union industries are facing increased global competition, collaborative labor relations are essential...
Company: Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Date: January 2003 |
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service |
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Geometry-Based Modeling And Simulation Of Construction Processes
The author describes a new approach for modeling and simulation of construction processes based on geometric models and techniques. Currently, there is an inadequate support...
Company: Stanford University
Date: February 2004 |
Stanford University |
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The Construction Of 'Communities Of Practice' In The Management Of Innovation
The notion of 'Community of practice' has achieved prominence in the context of wider debates on knowledge, learning and innovation in organizations. It has played...
Company: University of Warwick
Date: March 2003 |
University of Warwick |
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The Construction Industry And Emergency Management: Towards An Integrated Strategic Framework
Although most emergency events are not entirely unexpected and therefore can, to varying degrees, be mitigated for, the construction industry in the UK does not...
Company: Loughborough University
Date: May 2006 |
Loughborough University |
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Construction Design And Management Regulations
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (C.D.M.) are issued under the enabling powers of the Health and Safety at Work Act. 1974 and therefore place...
Company: Liverpool John Moores University
Date: September 2005 |
Liverpool John Moores University |
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Design And Construction Of A Floating Living Machine
A number of different types of ecosystems have been created for wastewater treatment including microbial reactors, algal tanks and scrubbers and constructed wetlands. Treatment is...
Company: University of Maryland
Date: July 2006 |
University of Maryland |
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Construction Prequalification Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Contractor prequalification is essential in most construction projects, and the process has been performed by many different methods in practice. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) had...
Company: University of Toronto
Date: July 2006 |
University of Toronto |
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Structure Management For Scalable Overlay Service Construction
This paper explores the model of providing a common overlay structure management layer to assist the construction of large-scale wide-area Internet services. To this end,...
Company: University of Rochester
Date: February 2004 |
University of Rochester |
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Towards Semantic Grid In Construction Informatics
Civil Engineering increasingly requires efficient Virtual Organizations of heterogeneous partners and facilities. Mainly four software architecture paradigms originating from the area of distributed computing have...
Company: University of Bonn
Date: May 2005 |
University of Bonn |
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A Computer Simulation Model: Construction Analysis For Pavement Rehabilitation Strategies (CA4PRS)
This paper presents a computer simulation model, CA4PRS (Construction Analysis for Pavement Rehabilitation Strategies), that helps estimate the maximum amount (distance) of highway that can...
Company: University of California, Berkeley
Date: February 2004 |
University of California, Berkeley |
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Semi-Automatic Construction Of Topic Ontologies
This paper reviews two techniques for topic discovery in collections of text documents (Latent Semantic Indexing and K-Means clustering) and present how one integrated them...
Company: Jozef Stefan Institute
Date: August 2006 |
Jozef Stefan Institute |
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A New Model For Systemic Innovation Diffusion In Project-Based Industries
Traditional industries (e.g., aerospace and pharmaceuticals) that once organized their activities into functional hierarchies are evolving toward project-based forms of organization in which teams of...
Company: Stanford University
Date: May 2004 |
Stanford University |
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Leadership And Project Management: Time For A Shift From Fayol To Flores
Henri Fayol's definition of management establishes the "Common sense" of current project management practice. That common sense is challenged by a new definition of work...
Company: University of Salford
Date: June 2004 |
University of Salford |
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Electric Charges: The Social Construction Of Rate Systems
Price is a central analytic concept in both neoclassical and old institutional economics. Combining the social network perspective with old and new institutionalist approaches to...
Company: University of Chicago
Date: December 2005 |
University of Chicago |
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Construction Of The Dialysis And Transplantation Ontology, Advantages, Limits, And Questions About Protege OWL
The project under progress concerns the development of a Local as View mediator for querying heterogeneous sources of end stage organ failure and transplantation information....
Company: Université de Rennes 1
Date: May 2004 |
Université de Rennes 1 |
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Best Value / PIPS Delivers Performance
Over the past few years, the construction industry has had difficulty delivering performance (on time, no change orders, and meeting customer satisfaction and expectation of...
Company: Arizona State University
Date: February 2007 |
Arizona State University |
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Identifying Key Risks In Construction Projects: Life Cycle And Stakeholder Perspectives
Managing risks in construction projects has been recognised as a very important management process in order to achieve the project objectives in terms of time,...
Company: University of New South Wales
Date: February 2006 |
University of New South Wales |
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Exploring Mental Models Of Construction Managers
Experience is a critical component of expertise for construction managers. Time allows them to inductively construct and organize knowledge about the construction management domain that...
Company: University of Washington
Date: December 2004 |
University of Washington |
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Engineering And Construction
Engineering and construction market, protecting ones profit margin is simply harder to achieve. Competition keeps margins thin and projects become more complex. Projects that seemed...
Company: Primavera Systems
Date: October 2005 |
Primavera Systems |
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OPM Vs. UML - Experimenting With Comprehension And Construction Of Web Application Models
Object-Process Methodology (OPM), which is a holistic approach to modeling and evolving systems, views objects and processes as two equally important entities that describe the...
Company: University of Haifa
Date: December 2004 |
University of Haifa |
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