ABVE-construct: an agent-based virtual entreprise model for civil engineering

An Analytic Model for Organization Readiness of Engineering Project Management Based on Virtual Teams

 The Organization Readiness of Engineering Project Management Based on Virtual Teams has been analyzed in an Iranian Engineering firm. Adapting and analyzing the latest readiness model, experts’ opinions were received by questionnaires and main criteria of the readiness have been identified. The considered readiness criteria are: Infrastructure, Deliverables (Drawings, Reports, Minutes of Meeti...

Civil Engineering Application for Virtual Collaborative Environment

The motivation for this project was to find a way to give engineers, and the community affected by Civil Engineering work, information that is often difficult to visualise via computer screens, 2D plans or even scale models. We developed a Digital Scale Model using the existing expertise at the University of Nottingham on Space Geodesy and Mixed Reality. The user works in a collaborative Virtua...

An Integrative Process Model for Cooperation Support in Civil Engineering

Planning processes in civil engineering are highly complex and characterised by a great number of participants and heterogeneous, distributed planning resources in terms of software methods, models and means of communication. The interaction, communication and information exchange between planning participants must be organised in computer networks. This paper presents an integrative process mo...

The Impact of Agent Activation on Population Behavior in an Agent-based Model of Civil Revolt

Learning Resources Brokerage Systems: An Agent-Based Virtual Market Model

This paper discusses issues related with learning resources brokerage systems. It introduces a marketbased modeling approach and proposes a virtual market model design of a brokerage system based on multi-agent analysis.