An Agent Based Approach for Project Management in Construction

Abstract: Project management has an important role in terms of time, cost and flexibility. An agent-based architecture provides additional robustness, scalability, flexibility that is particularly appropriate for problems with a dynamic and distributed nature. Integrated agent based project management covers design and construction planning. It is combined with plan execution, tolerating both the design and plan, which may be changed as necessary. In this reason, the decision making process requires that the right effects of change need to be propagated through the plan and design in dynamic environment. It is difficult to estimate the operation times and costs exactly. A numerical simulation is presented at the end of this paper to illustrate the procedures of the proposed model