The practice of subcontracting selection emphasizes two important goals: the company's strategic goal to maximize profits by partnering with subcontractors and the project's operational goal for obtaining qualified subcontractors. Both goals are achieved by formulating the best multi-criteria weights. This is not easy to implement due to differences in subjectivity, viewpoint, and other consideration of assessors, but prioritizing the criterion weights can reduce these differences. This study presents an ANN (Artificial Neural Network) with the ability to generalize data. The purpose of the study is to develop an ANN model for subcontracting selection and to identify significant criteria related to the company's strategic goal. The initial training of the proposed ANN model utilized 40 subcontractor selection datasets containing data in the form of a subcontractor selection scheme consisting of 20 criteria and 5 major groups. Training of ANN model was successful with MSE learning at 1.37269e -7 , MSE validation at 0.07985, and epoch 600 to 800. The quotation price is the significant criterion of the selection, and it has a great outcome for the contractor strategic goal. The interaction between the subcontractor selection practice and the ANN model shows that the ANN has an important role in the subcontractor selection practice.

Managing construction risks with a large number of risks with small impact can increase the additional effort and cost of inefficient construction. Therefore the variables need to be eliminated. The aim of this study is ranking the risk variable based on its frequency of occurrence by integrating time, cost, and quality criteria simultaneously and selecting the top ten variables with the order of the most significant impact. The risk variable ranking based on triple project objective of cost, time, and quality simultaneously is a challenge for particular projects or regions contributing to the risk context. A number of 127 qualitative risk variables of 14 factors occurring in a project to be eliminated require a method/technique. A fuzzy TOPSIS method involving linguistics data is proposed to capture vague conditions. Results show that the top ten rankings of risk variables based on integrating the different weights of cost, time, and quality are successfully identified by concluding that the labour factor is the most dominant variable affecting project risk in context the rehabilitation and reconstruction posttsunami disaster, especially in Aceh-Indonesia. The variables are lack of labour, unskilled labour, undisciplined labour, and low productivity of labour. This condition can differ from different risk contexts. This research is different from other studies that only review cost, time, and quality separately. We stated that to integrate all three criteria of cost, time, and quality simultaneously is more logic to analyze risk variable ranking.

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Multi criteria, which are generally used for decision analysis, have certain characteristics that relate to the purpose of the decision. Multi criteria have complex structures and have different weights depending upon the consideration of assessors and the purpose of the decision also. Expert’s judgment will be used to detect the criteria weights that applied by assessors. The aim of this study is a model to detect the criteria weights and biases on the subcontractor selection and detecting the significant weights, as decisive criteria. A method, which is used to modeling the weights detection, is the Solver Application. Data, totaling 40 sets, has been collected that consist of the assessor’s assessment and the expert’s judgment. The result is a pattern of weights and biases detection. The proposed model have been able to detect of 20 criteria weights and biases, that consist of 4 criteria in  the total weights of 60% (as decisive criteria) and 16 criteria in the total weights of 40%. A model has been built by training process performed by the Solver, which the result for MSE training is 9.73711e-08 and for MSE validation is 0.00900528. Novelty in the study is a model to detect pattern of weights criteria and biases on subcontractor selection by transferring the expert's judgment using Solver Application.

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