Virtual simulation environment for comparing and testing current modeling strategies in project planning and control
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper introduces a simulation environment that enables researchers and industry professionals to evaluate newly proposed methods for project planning and control. It addresses the need for comprehensive testing of modeling strategies across diverse scenarios, given limited access to real-world case studies. Using Monte Carlo-Markov chain simulation, the virtual environment facilitates the creation of random networks simulating construction project baseline plans and the uncertainties affecting these projects' execution. The research contributes significantly in two aspects. Firstly, the network generator can capture the complete feasible domain based on several quantitative topological measures for complexity and randomness, addressing prior limitations of previously developed network generators. Secondly, by embedding cost and schedule parameters and facilitating experimentation with various modeling strategies, this study offers a dynamic, resource-efficient alternative for robust comparative analysis of construction innovations. Practically, this environment serves as an essential decision-support tool for encouraging innovative experimentation and advancing construction management practices.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it