MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W4413217569 · doi:10.1108/ecam-12-2024-1662

Minimizing personnel assignment costs in the layout phase of steel component construction

2025· article· en· W4413217569 on OpenAlex
Shangyao Yan, Jieh‐Haur Chen, Phan Viet Anh Nguyen, Po‐Han Chen

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueEngineering Construction & Architectural Management · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBIM and Construction Integration
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFlexibility (engineering)SalaryFactory (object-oriented programming)Total costOperations researchComputer scienceFunction (biology)Duration (music)Reduction (mathematics)Cost reductionAssignment problemInteger programmingComponent (thermodynamics)Operations managementReliability engineeringMathematical optimizationEngineeringMathematicsBusiness

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

Purpose To enhance the efficiency of personnel assignment in layout operations, this study employs 0–1 integer programming optimization theory, integrated with practical layout operations in steel structure construction, to assign manpower under known constraints to find the optimal personnel assignment and minimal cost and to provide management decision-makers with an effective way to control operational costs. Design/methodology/approach The research considers constraints such as personnel availability and part types, constructing a mathematical model with one objective function and 11 constraints. By applying this model to a real-world project for constructing a technology factory and using LINGO 18.0 software, the study demonstrates that optimizing personnel assignment can reduce total costs by 12.82% and manual assignment time by 99%. Findings The findings also elucidate the following: (1) Sensitivity analysis indicates that decreasing the number of working days slightly increases total operational costs, whereas extending the duration to 30–40 days results in cost reductions. Furthermore, reducing high-efficiency and high-salary personnel has a minor impact on overall costs, while cutting low-efficiency and low-salary personnel leads to a substantial cost increase of approximately 50–52%. (2) Efficient and rapid personnel assignment contributes to achieving minimal operational costs, with a cost reduction of 12.82%, while also facilitating the attainment of project goals in the most effective manner. Originality/value The study developed a mathematical model featuring a single objective function and 11 practical constraints, providing practitioners with the flexibility to adapt it as needed to address empirical engineering challenges related to personnel layout assignments.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.552
Threshold uncertainty score0.873

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it