From Social Network to Data Envelopment Analysis: Identifying Benchmarks at the Site Management Level

Abbasian-Hosseini, S. Alireza; Hsiang, Simon M.; Leming, Michael L.; Liu, Min

doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0000875

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“…[17]. Several researchers [39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54] have suc-cessfully employed DEA in the construction industry for di erent purposes such as evaluation of contractors, selection of project location, evaluation of productivity and e ciency, assessment of credit scoring, purchase of construction materials, evaluation of design alternatives, benchmarking, assessment of performance, evaluation of contractors for bonding, etc. Despite the wide usage area of DEA in the construction industry, this technique has been utilized to make the bid/no-bid decision only in a limited number of studies (i.e.…”

Section: Data Envelopment Analysis (Dea)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Approach for Making the Bid/No Bid Decision: A Case Study in a Turkish Construction Contracting Company

Polat

Bingol²

2017

Scientia Iranica

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Construction contracting companies face two critical decisions in competitive bidding environment, which include: the bid/no-bid decision and the markup selection decision. Making the right bid/no-bid decision is critical to the survival, sustainability, and success of the contractors in the industry. There are many factors that a ect this decision. This makes the bidding decisions complex and complicated. Therefore, it is not an easy task for managers to consider the combined impact of all these factors on the bid/no-bid decision within a limited time frame with limited capacity of information they have for every single bidding opportunity. This study proposes a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach for making the bid/no-bid decision. DEA is a robust non-parametric linear programming approach, which is mostly used for benchmarking, performance measurement, and decision making problems. The applicability of the proposed approach was demonstrated in a real case study conducted in a Turkish construction contracting company. In the case study, 49 bidding opportunities formerly faced by the studied company were evaluated via the developed DEA model. The accuracy rate of the proposed approach was 92%. Company management found the proposed approach satisfactory and implementable in future bid/nobid decision problems.

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Section: Data Envelopment Analysis (Dea)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Approach for Making the Bid/No Bid Decision: A Case Study in a Turkish Construction Contracting Company

Polat

Bingol²

2017

Scientia Iranica

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“…CSM is an aspect of management, which involves the day-to-day allocation, control and management of resources required for maximising output and minimising inefficiencies in construction (Thomas et al, 2005) which, partly depends on process variability and flexibility. CSM involves the amalgamation of resourcetransforming activities, which collectively generate finished outputs (Bresnen et al, 1984;Mustapha and Naoum, 1998;Mohamed and Anumba, 2006;Abbasian-hosseini et al, 2014). It is arguable that the nature of the SM process would highlight human limitations in the live management of people, resources and site.…”

Section: Csm and The Need For Technology-based Enhancementmentioning

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Process Need Areas and Technology Adoption in Construction Site Management

Ozumba¹,

Ojiako²,

Shakantu³

et al. 2019

JCDC

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The study explores the areas of process need in construction site management and technology utilisation to address those needs within the construction industry. An exploratory case study was used, with a focus on process need areas that could be impacted by technology infusion. Results highlight the impact of human limitations on management performance and poor utilisation of available relevant technology in the presence of managerial lapses. Inherent limitations of case study strategy were experienced in the form of number of cases and achieving uniformity of features. Nevertheless, the cases provided rich cross-validating data. The article provides empirical insights about the possibility of construction site management benefiting from increased exploitation of technology to address management shortcomings. The article highlights the need to understand individual projects in terms of site management process needs and opportunities in recent information and communication technology (ICT) to address such need areas, by linking potential utility in technology to lapses in the management process of construction sites. The study provides a baseline understanding of relevant concepts of ICT adoption in site management. While considerable interest exists regarding technology use in construction, studies explicitly contextualised within process need areas in site management and with management-centred view remain sparse.

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“…Social network analysis is study of the network structure to investigate the impact of the pattern of ties and the network structure on the nodes (Abbasian-Hosseini, Hsiang, Leming, & Liu, 2014;De Nooy, Mrvar, & Batagelj, 2005). A social network consists of various nodes and the ties that connect them.…”

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“…Computer simulation has been considered an effective tool for patient flow modeling. It can be applied for evaluating the current performance of the system and for predicting the changes in the patient pathway (Abo-Hamid & Arisha, 2013). Berg et al (2010) developed a simulation model for a colonoscopy suite to evaluate resource utilization and patient flow.…”

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Social Network based sensitivity analysis for patient flow using computer simulation

Nikakhtar

Abbasian-Hosseini

Gazula

et al. 2015

Computers & Industrial Engineering

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From Social Network to Data Envelopment Analysis: Identifying Benchmarks at the Site Management Level

Cited by 16 publications

References 33 publications

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Approach for Making the Bid/No Bid Decision: A Case Study in a Turkish Construction Contracting Company

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Approach for Making the Bid/No Bid Decision: A Case Study in a Turkish Construction Contracting Company

Process Need Areas and Technology Adoption in Construction Site Management

Social Network based sensitivity analysis for patient flow using computer simulation

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