ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering: Review of the years 1985–2002

This study considers the content of the papers published by ASCE’s Journal of Management in Engineering, which has witnessed a growth in number of papers and breadth of participation, particularly of international origin, during the 1985–2002 period. The content is analyzed in two main dimensions: the type of subject and its composing topics, and the type of contributors to the journal. The analysis shows the evolution of the engineering management discipline as represented in the journal. Over the years the discipline has been enriched by an increasing number of contributions on corporate strategies and programs, organizational change, and cultures issues, as well as a growing interest in project management topics, such as quality planning and evaluation of alternative project delivery systems. The number of papers by practitioners, initially the largest contributing group to the journal, has declined significantly over the years.     

Predicting the Outcome of Construction Litigation Using Boosted Decision Trees

Construction litigation has become commonplace in numerous construction projects, particularly in large contracts. Miscommunication, inadequate plans and specifications, rigid contracts, changes in site conditions, nonpayment, catch up profits, limitations on manpower, tools, and equipment, improper supervision, notice requirements, constructive changes not recognized as such by owner, delays, and acceleration measures provoke claims and often result in disputes. A boosted decision tree system was used to predict the outcome of construction litigation. The study was conducted by using the same 114 Illinois court cases that were used in earlier prediction studies conducted with artificial neural networks in 1998 and case-based reasoning in 1999, augmented by an additional 18 cases that were filed in 1990–2000. All cases were extracted from the Westlaw on-line service. The best prediction result obtained with boosted decision trees was 90%. The boosted decision tree model appears to be a promising tool to help create a dispute-free construction industry.     

国际工程项目承包中招标方法研究

根据概率和数理统计分析，提出工程项目招标方法中的模拟技术，给出不同招标方法的比较研究结果。     

Multiple costs based decision making with back-propagation neural networks

The current research investigates a single cost for cost-sensitive neural networks (CNN) for decision making. This may not be feasible for real cost-sensitive decisions which involve multiple costs. We propose to modify the existing model, the traditional back-propagation neural networks (TNN), by extending the back-propagation error equation for multiple cost decisions. In this multiple-cost extension, all costs are normalized to be in the same interval (i.e. between 0 and 1) as the error estimation generated in the TNN. A comparative analysis of accuracy dependent on three outcomes for constant costs was performed: (1) TNN and CNN with one constant cost (CNN-1C), (2) TNN and CNN with two constant costs (CNN-2C), and (3) CNN-1C and CNN-2C. A similar analysis for accuracy was also made for non-constant costs; (1) TNN and CNN with one non-constant cost (CNN-1NC), (2) TNN and CNN with two non-constant costs (CNN-2NC), and (3) CNN-1NC and CNN-2NC. Furthermore, we compared the misclassification cost for CNNs for both constant and non-constant costs (CNN-1C vs. CNN-2C and CNN-1NC vs. CNN-2NC). Our findings demonstrate that there is a competitive behavior between the accuracy and misclassification cost in the proposed CNN model. To obtain a higher accuracy and lower misclassification cost, our results suggest merging all constant cost matrices into one constant cost matrix for decision making. For multiple non-constant cost matrices, our results suggest maintaining separate matrices to enhance the accuracy and reduce the misclassification cost.     

面向Web结构化信息处理的汉语知识库构建研究

对Web结构化汉语信息处理中的知识需求进行了分析,介绍了目前有影响的汉语语义资源和本体知识,给出了面向Web结构化信息处理的汉语知识库组成模型及构建方法,并在Deep Web研究中对该模型进行了应用验证.该研究旨在使计算机更全面有效地对特定领域的web结构化信息进行处理,对本体的深入研究也有一定的参考价值.     

三峡工程覃家沱特大桥的设计与施工

覃家沱特大桥是一座多功能的特大重载桥，桥型为三跨连续刚构，主梁１３０ｍ，主要设计荷载为汽１３５级挂６６０级，设计荷载相当于双线路路荷载，与目前国内同类经线铁路桥相比主跨度居国内第一，大桥上部结构箱梁采用单箱双室截面，设置纵，横，竖三向预应力；下部结构主墩为单壁实体墩，主墩及桥台基础均为灌注桩，在结构设计及重载挂篮悬臂施工技术等方面具有特点，对桥梁工程的设计与施工具有借鉴价值。     

天生桥一级水电站施工总布置研究

天生桥一级水电站采用合同管理方式建设，主体工程划分为四个土建及金属结构安装合同和一个厂房永久机电设备安装工程合同，为满足合同管理的要求，进行了场内外交通运输设计、施工场地划分、公用施工临时设施和专用施工临时设施的划分、土石方平衡规划等设计工作，潢足了工程建设的需要     

三峡船闸下游引航道防渗工程施工质量监理

华东勘测设计研究院监理中心在三峡工程通航建筑物下游引航道防渗工程施工阶段狠抓质量监理。监理工程师在开工申请，试验，工序控制，质量缺陷处理和竣工验收等方面严格起来，总结了一套理工程师在现场管理模式。     

大型污水处理工程预应力施工

介绍了某大型污水处理工程中预应力水池的结构方案和预应力施工技术,并进一步探讨了预应力技术在大型水池中的应用。     

基于广域网的遥操作工程机器人神经网络控制

针对在广域网环境下因较大网络时延造成遥操作工程机器人系统操作性能下降甚至系统不稳定的问题,提出一种神经网络控制方法。借助于广域网模拟器,在局域网环境下进行了不同网络时延下的位置阶跃响应和稳态跟踪实验研究。结果表明:与常规PID控制方法相比,该方法具有更好的动态和稳态特性,对网络时延具有较好的适应性和鲁棒性。研究结果对提高广域网环境下的遥操作工程机器人系统的操作性能具有指导意义。