Simulation-based planning of concrete bridge deck inspection with non-destructive technologies

How human-robot collaboration impacts construction productivity: An agent-based multi-fidelity modeling approach

“…Initially, four kinds of agents are involved in this model, the working hour agent, the robot agent, the worker agent, the brick agent. Similar to [16], a hierarchical structure is adopted in this research to express the relationship between agents, as shown in Figure 3. The structure contains three layers.…”

Integration of discrete event simulation with other modeling techniques to simulate construction engineering and management: an overview

“…In recent years, ABM has started to be more implemented by CEM researchers to capture the complexity of the environment of construction projects (Ahn and Lee, 2015;Araya, 2020;Khodabandelu and Park, 2021;Osman, 2012); namely, it has been applied to study site operations (Watkins et al, 2009), resource allocations (Farshchian and Heravi, 2018), infrastructure management, BIM (Cheng et al, 2018), and COVID-19 (Araya, 2022). It has been suggested that the recent and higher capacity of ABM to model human behaviors combined with DES maturity in CEM may be a successful combination (Abdelkhalek and Zayed, 2020).…”

“…• System Dynamics [Hwang et al, 2016;Li et al, 2018] • Agent-Based Modeling [Abdelkhalek and Zayed, 2020;Zankoul et al, 2015] • Virtual environments [Abbasi et al, 2020;Sacks et al, 2015] Review and recommendations regarding the application of DES alone in CEM [Martinez, 2010] Review…”

“…The authors concluded that proposing a multimethod framework can counterbalance the strengths and limitations between ABM and DES, namely, human behavior of systems can be included through ABM on the study of construction processes using DES (Zankoul et al, 2015). More recently, Abdelkhalek and Zayed (2020) integrated DES and ABM to study the inspection process of concrete bridges. DES was used to replicate the sequence of tasks involved in the inspection process, and ABM was used to simulate the behavior of the different participants involved during the inspection process (e.g., inspectors).…”

“…However, as with every method, DES has limitations that are important to be acknowledged, such as the need to discretize continuous data (Puri and Martinez, 2013), the lack of capacity to add feedback processes (Peña-Mora et al, 2008), and model verification and validation challenges (Zankoul et al, 2015). Of note, to compensate for these limitations, researchers have begun to integrate DES with other simulation techniques often used in the construction engineering and management (CEM) domain, such as agent-based modeling (e.g., Abdelkhalek and Zayed, 2020), system dynamics (e.g., Hwang et al, 2016;Xu et al, 2018), and virtual environments (e.g., Abbasi et al, 2020;Sacks et al, 2015). For instance, efforts have been made to propose a framework to integrate multiple simulation techniques, such as DES, SD, and ABM (Bokor et al, 2019).…”