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On-site labor productivity estimation using neural networks

2005· dissertation· en· W803883628 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSpectrum Research Repository (Concordia University) · 2005
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBIM and Construction Integration
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArtificial neural networkProductivitySampling (signal processing)EngineeringEstimationWork (physics)SoftwareField (mathematics)Industrial engineeringComputer scienceOperations researchData miningMachine learningTelecommunicationsSystems engineeringMathematicsEconomics
DOInot available

Abstract

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This thesis presents a study of on-site labor productivity in building construction using the work sampling method. The study is based on a field investigation of a number of selected construction operations on three buildings in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The developed models revealed related parameters' impact on labor productivity. Neural network was used as a method for the development of the models presented in this thesis. The developed models are based on the data collected using work sampling and were developed using NeuralShell2 software. The network was trained and tested using 221 data points collected from real construction projects that were performed in Montreal in a 30-month period. The models' development and validation utilize real-world data from the projects. Three types of neural network-based models were developed. The first type of models is back propagation neural network (BPNN) models associated with different settings. The fifth model has shown the best results.

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.045
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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 studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
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 head0.016
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.240 · 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