Towards the smart construction site: Improving productivity and safety of construction projects using multi-agent systems, real-time simulation and automated machine control

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hammad, Amin ^a   Vahdatikhaki, Faridaddin ^b   Zhang, Cheng ^b   Mawlana, Mohammed ^b   Doriani, Ahmad ^b  

^a Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering ^*  (Canada)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D DESIGNS; AGENT TECHNOLOGY; AUTOMATED MACHINES; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CONSTRUCTION SITES; DESIGN MODELS; HEAVY CONSTRUCTION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); NAVIGATION GUIDANCE; NEAR-REAL TIME; OPERATIONAL PROCESS; REAL TIME SIMULATIONS; REAL-TIME DATA; ROBUST MECHANISMS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DATA PROCESSING; DESIGN; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84874708106     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2012.6465160     Document Type: Conference Paper

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