Following a realization that staff and students in Ghanaian public university were fearful of getting infected with COVID-19 due to their mistrust the cleanliness campus environment, this study examined built infrastructure cleaning disinfection strategies adopted by during pandemic, as well role played Facilities Manager ensuring adherence standard practices. The objective was thus two-fold: f...

It is expected that more accounting conservation (environmental uncertainty) reduces manager optimism. Prior research, however, has struggled to establish this relation empirically. Moreover, some evidence points to the possibility that the manager optimism is lower for firms with more accounting conservation. In this paper, the author examine the link between accounting conservation, environme...

The leader-follower partially observed, multi-objective Markov game (LF-POMG) models a sequential decision making situation with two intelligent and adaptive decision makers, a leader and a follower, each of which can choose actions that affect the dynamics of the system and where these actions are selected on the basis of current and past but possibly inaccurate state observations. The decisio...

This paper presents a novel approach to the facility layout design problem based on multi-agent society where agents’ interactions form the facility layout design. Each agent corresponds to a facility with inherent characteristics, emotions, and a certain amount of money, forming its utility function. An agent’s money is adjusted during the learning period by a manager agent while each agent tr...

Wie kann Software dabei helfen, die Lebensdauer eines Gebäudes zu erhöhen und die Kosten des Gebäudebetriebes zu senken? Darauf gibt CAFM (Computer Aided Facility Management) seit bald drei Jahrzehnten viele verschiedene Antworten. In einem Projekt wird eine Insellösung für die Dokumentation und Abrechnung von Büroflächen angeschafft, die neben einem anderen isolierten CAFMSystem für die Wartun...

This study was aimed at developing a method for measuring the relationship between intellectual capital and project manager competencies. Intellectual capital consist human capital, structural capital and relational capital. Project manager competencies have been evaluated based on IPMA Competence Baseline (ICB) and Project Manager Competency Development Framework (PMCDF) includes knowledge, sk...

this paper addresses a reliable facility location problem with considering facility capacity constraints. in reliable facility location problem some facilities may become unavailable from time to time. if a facility fails, its clients should refer to other facilities by paying the cost of retransfer to these facilities. hence, the fail of facilities leads to disruptions in facility location dec...