Case-Based Reasoning for Construction Hazard Identification: Case Representation and Retrieval |
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Authors: | Y. M. Goh D. K. H. Chua |
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Affiliation: | 1Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, Curtin Univ. of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia (corresponding author). E-mail: y.goh@curtin.edu.au 2Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore 119260, Singapore. E-mail: cvedavid@nus.edu.sg
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Abstract: | This paper proposes a case-based reasoning (CBR) approach to construction hazard identification that facilitates systematic feedback of past knowledge in the form of incident cases and hazard identification. This paper focuses on two of the key components of the CBR approach: (1) a detailed knowledge representation scheme, developed based on the modified loss causation model, to codify incident cases and past hazard identification and (2) an intelligent retrieval mechanism that can automatically retrieve relevant past cases. The detailed knowledge representation scheme presented herein is designed to model both incident cases and hazard identification so that both types of knowledge repository can be retrieved simultaneously and adapted for use. The scheme also includes a linguistic structure used to facilitate indexing of cases. The retrieval mechanism is based on the concept of similarity scoring. In this paper, a novel scoring technique based on semantic networks is presented. A case study is presented to demonstrate and validate the proposed approach. |
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Keywords: | Construction management Risk management Safety Information technology (IT) Accidents Safety Knowledge-based systems |
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