School of Science, Engineering & Environment

The foundations of lean construction (2002)
Book Chapter
Koskela, L., Ballard, G., Howell, G., & Tommelein, I. (2002). The foundations of lean construction. In R. Best, & G. de Valence (Eds.), Design and construction: building in value (211-226). Oxford, UK: Butterworth Heinemann

Looks at a broad range of topics related to the processes of design and construction. Its overall aim is to look at ways that clients can improve the value for money outcomes of their decisions to construct buildings.

Benchmarking (2002)
Book Chapter
Eaton, D. (2002). Benchmarking. In J. Kelly, R. Morledge, & S. Wilkinson (Eds.), Best Value in Construction (59-76). Oxford: WileyBlackwell

Measuring semantic similarity between words using lexical knowledge and neural networks (2002)
Book Chapter
Li, Y., Bandar, Z., & Mclean, D. (2002). Measuring semantic similarity between words using lexical knowledge and neural networks. In H. Yin, N. Allinson, R. Freeman, J. Keane, & S. Hubbard (Eds.), Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning — IDEAL 2002 : Third International Conference Manchester, UK, August 12–14, 2002 Proceedings (111-116). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45675-9_19

This paper investigates the determination of semantic similarity by the incorporation of structural semantic knowledge from a lexical database and the learning ability of neural networks. The lexical database is assumed to be organised in a hierarchi... Read More about Measuring semantic similarity between words using lexical knowledge and neural networks.

A method for maintaining document consistency based on similarity contents (2002)
Book Chapter
Meziane, F., & Rezgui, Y. (2002). A method for maintaining document consistency based on similarity contents. In B. Andersson, M. Bergholtz, & P. Johannesson (Eds.), Natural language processing and information systems (85-96). Bonne, Germany: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36271-1

The advent of the WWW and distributed information systems have made it possible to share documents between different users and organisations. However, this has created many problems related to the security, accessibility, right and most importantly t... Read More about A method for maintaining document consistency based on similarity contents.

An information framework for a merchant trust agent in electronic commerce (2002)
Book Chapter
Kasiran, M., & Meziane, F. (2002). An information framework for a merchant trust agent in electronic commerce. In H. Yin, N. Allinson, R. Freeman, J. Keane, & S. Hubbard (Eds.), Intelligent data engineering and automated learning (243-248). Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45675-9

eCommerce is a faceless business arrangement where the process of creating trust towards merchants, hereby referred to as merchant trust, is still a big challenge. Merchant trust framework can be created by using factors such as existence, affiliatio... Read More about An information framework for a merchant trust agent in electronic commerce.

Ethnography in the construction industry: competing bodies of knowledge in civil engineering (2002)
Book Chapter
Rooke, J., & Seymour, D. (2002). Ethnography in the construction industry: competing bodies of knowledge in civil engineering. In R. Fellows, & D. Seymour (Eds.), Perspectives on culture in construction. Rotterdam: CIB

Teamwork (2002)
Book Chapter
Egbu, C., & Gorse, C. (2002). Teamwork. In Project Management Pathways: The Essential Handbook for Project and Programme Managers (1-16). United Kingdom: Association for Project Management (APM)

Bricks versus clicks: planning for the digital economy (2002)
Book Chapter
Gillespie, A., Marvin, S., & Green, N. (2002). Bricks versus clicks: planning for the digital economy. In J. Wilsdon (Ed.), Digital Futures: Living in as networked world. London: Earthscan Publications

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