TY - JOUR
T1 - MitC
T2 - Open-source software for construction project control and delay mitigation
AU - Kammouh, Omar
AU - Kok, M. W.A.(Maurits)
AU - Nogal, Maria
AU - Binnekamp, Ruud
AU - Wolfert, A. R.M.(Rogier)
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Changes in a construction project schedule can impact the project's planned duration, resulting in penalties. A manual trial-and-error probabilistic approach is usually conducted to find an appropriate set of corrective measures to mitigate delays of the overall project. However, this approach does not capture the actual goal-oriented behavior of project managers who react to the actual scenarios causing delays, leading to a fundamental modeling error. Moreover, it does not employ control and automation concepts when finding the optimal mitigation strategy. To remove this modeling error and to automate the mitigation process, the Mitigation Controller (MitC) software is developed. The MitC searches for the most cost-effective set of mitigation measures considering risk events and durations uncertainties of activities. Moreover, the MitC captures activity correlations and enables contractual penalty/reward schemes in the simulation. As a result, it returns the most effective mitigation strategy that minimizes the mitigation cost and penalty and maximizes the reward potential. The Mitigation Controller introduced here constitutes an open-source code written in Matlab
AB - Changes in a construction project schedule can impact the project's planned duration, resulting in penalties. A manual trial-and-error probabilistic approach is usually conducted to find an appropriate set of corrective measures to mitigate delays of the overall project. However, this approach does not capture the actual goal-oriented behavior of project managers who react to the actual scenarios causing delays, leading to a fundamental modeling error. Moreover, it does not employ control and automation concepts when finding the optimal mitigation strategy. To remove this modeling error and to automate the mitigation process, the Mitigation Controller (MitC) software is developed. The MitC searches for the most cost-effective set of mitigation measures considering risk events and durations uncertainties of activities. Moreover, the MitC captures activity correlations and enables contractual penalty/reward schemes in the simulation. As a result, it returns the most effective mitigation strategy that minimizes the mitigation cost and penalty and maximizes the reward potential. The Mitigation Controller introduced here constitutes an open-source code written in Matlab
KW - Activity correlation
KW - Corrective measure
KW - Monte Carlo simulation
KW - Penalty and reward
KW - Project scheduling
KW - Risk
KW - Time-cost optimization
KW - Uncertainty
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85125911838&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.softx.2022.101023
DO - 10.1016/j.softx.2022.101023
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85125911838
VL - 18
JO - SoftwareX
JF - SoftwareX
SN - 2352-7110
M1 - 101023
ER -