All Outputs (406)

Improving information flow within the production management system with web services (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Dave, B., Boddy, S., & Koskela, L. (2010, July). Improving information flow within the production management system with web services. Presented at 18th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Haifa, Israel

The efficiency of the production planning and control process in construction depends significantly on the reliability and timely availability of resource information. The Last Planner system for production control mandates that a construction task s... Read More about Improving information flow within the production management system with web services.

Waste and labor productivity in production planning case Finnish construction industry (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Koskenvesa, A., Koskela, L., Tolonen, T., & Sahlsted, S. (2010, July). Waste and labor productivity in production planning case Finnish construction industry. Presented at 18th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Haifa, Israel

The main objective of this paper is to examine labor productivity and waste and their role in production planning and control in Finnish construction industry. Three hypothesis are tested: (1) the assumption that labor productivity concerning differe... Read More about Waste and labor productivity in production planning case Finnish construction industry.

Last planner and critical chain in construction management: comparative analysis (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Koskela, L., Stratton, R., & Koskenvesa, A. (2010, July). Last planner and critical chain in construction management: comparative analysis. Presented at 18th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Haifa, Israel

This paper endeavours to compare the Last Planner System of production control and the Critical Chain production management method. This comparison is carried out in the context of construction management. The original prescription and the evolution... Read More about Last planner and critical chain in construction management: comparative analysis.

A new path planner for autonomous mobile robots based on genetic algorithm (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Shamsinejad, P., Saraee, M., & Sheikholeslam, F. (2010, July). A new path planner for autonomous mobile robots based on genetic algorithm. Presented at he 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT), Chengdu, China

One of the most important issues for autonomous mobile robots is finding paths in their environment. A local path planner must be able to design the path immediately and if possible with high accuracy and efficiency. In this p... Read More about A new path planner for autonomous mobile robots based on genetic algorithm.

Data mining approaches on discovering knowledge for decision makers: towards sustainable groundwater resources management (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Taheri, H., Safavi, H., Saraee, M., & Afghari, N. (2010, July). Data mining approaches on discovering knowledge for decision makers: towards sustainable groundwater resources management. Presented at 2010 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Management Science (ICAMS), Chengdu, China

Rapid population growth, increased irrigation, and industrial development, dramatically increased risk of vulnerability in water resources especially groundwater resources all over the world. Because of the complexity of water resources management, t... Read More about Data mining approaches on discovering knowledge for decision makers: towards sustainable groundwater resources management.

Avian population dynamics and human induced change in an urban environment (2010)
Journal Article
James, P., Norman, D., & Clarke, J. (2010). Avian population dynamics and human induced change in an urban environment. Urban Ecosystems, 13(4), 499-515. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-010-0132-9

The predominantly urban boroughs of Warrington and Halton straddle the river Mersey in northwest England. Since the 1970s there has been a major change in land-use associated with both innovative town design and the decline of manufacturing and chemi... Read More about Avian population dynamics and human induced change in an urban environment.

Construction in year 2030 : developing an information technology vision (2010)
Journal Article
Erdogan, B., Abbott, C., & Aouad, G. (2010). Construction in year 2030 : developing an information technology vision. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 368, 3551-3565. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0076

Emerging technologies offer new solutions to the construction industry, improving processes, enabling automation and effective decision-making mechanisms and changing current ways of work. Previous research has tended to consider a direct causal re... Read More about Construction in year 2030 : developing an information technology vision.

Cities in transition: emerging urban regeneration and housing policies in Istanbul, with comparative analysis of Budapest (2010)
Presentation / Conference
policies in Istanbul, with comparative analysis of Budapest. Presented at Urban dynamics and housing change - Crossing into the 2nd Decade of the 3rd Millennium, Istanbul, Turkey

The scope of conventional housing policies changed from affordable housing provision, quality of homes, renewal, to contemporary problems of economic, social and environmental urban deprivation - as a challenge for wider regeneration process. This... Read More about Cities in transition: emerging urban regeneration and housing policies in Istanbul, with comparative analysis of Budapest.

Urban compactness: indicators of a property distinct from density (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Marshall, S., Gong, Y., & Green, N. (2010, July). Urban compactness: indicators of a property distinct from density. Presented at AESOP Conference 2010, Helsinki, Finland

Facilitating innovation in construction : directions and implications for research and policy (2010)
Journal Article
Aouad, G., Ozorhon, B., & Abbott, C. (2010). Facilitating innovation in construction : directions and implications for research and policy. Construction innovation (London. Online), 10(4), 374-394. https://doi.org/10.1108/14714171011083551

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight for future innovation research activities and for the role of universities in working with industry to promote innovation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an overview a... Read More about Facilitating innovation in construction : directions and implications for research and policy.

Gestao de beneficios na etapa de projecto em empreendimentos hospitalares do reino unido [Managing benefits in the design of healthcare favilities in the UK] (2010)
Journal Article
Tillmann, P., Tzortzopoulos, P., Sapountzis, S., & Formoso, C. (2010). Gestao de beneficios na etapa de projecto em empreendimentos hospitalares do reino unido [Managing benefits in the design of healthcare favilities in the UK]. Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos, 5(1), 109-132. https://doi.org/10.4237/gtp.v5i1.114

Proposal: The healthcare system in the United kingdomis passing through transformation and change for improvement and innovation. Within this context, healthcare facilities are being developed in a complex multi-stakeholder environment, which usually... Read More about Gestao de beneficios na etapa de projecto em empreendimentos hospitalares do reino unido [Managing benefits in the design of healthcare favilities in the UK].

Single-phase aerodynamic flow field validation of novel airblast atomizer designs (2010)
Journal Article
Burby, M., Nasr, G., Yule, A., & Morgan, L. (2010). Single-phase aerodynamic flow field validation of novel airblast atomizer designs. Atomization and Sprays, 20(7), 565-579. https://doi.org/10.1615/AtomizSpr.v20.i7.10

Airblast atomizers are used extensively in aero gas turbine engines. In the pursuit of reducing emissions and increasing fuel efficiency a novel airblast atomizer design is being developed that is capable of variable fuel-placement. Such a design wil... Read More about Single-phase aerodynamic flow field validation of novel airblast atomizer designs.

Faculty of science, engineering & environment - Celebration of research (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Various. (2010, June). Faculty of science, engineering & environment - Celebration of research. Poster presented at Faculty of Science, Engineering & Environment - Celebration of Research, Lady Hale Building, University of Salford

A collection of poster abstracts from the Faculty of Science, Engineering & Environment 'Celebration of Research' event held on 30 June 2010 in the Lady Hale Building, University of Salford.

Time--activity budget of greater rheas (Rhea americana, Aves) on a human-disturbed area: the role of habitat, time of the day, season and group size (2010)
Journal Article
de Azevedo, C., Ferraz, J., Tinoco, H., Young, R., & Rodrigues, M. (2010). Time--activity budget of greater rheas (Rhea americana, Aves) on a human-disturbed area: the role of habitat, time of the day, season and group size. Acta ethologica, 13, 109-117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10211-010-0080-7

The aim of this study was to evaluate activity–time budget, habitat use and how seasonality and group size influence the expression of greater rhea behaviours. Greater rheas are threatened South American birds; habitat loss, predation and hunting are... Read More about Time--activity budget of greater rheas (Rhea americana, Aves) on a human-disturbed area: the role of habitat, time of the day, season and group size.

Developing knowledge-intensive low carbon futures: contexts, consequences and challenges (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Marvin, S., & Perry, B. (2010, June). Developing knowledge-intensive low carbon futures: contexts, consequences and challenges. Presented at European Commission Cities of Tomorrow Initiative, Brussels, Belgium

Runoff infiltration: A desktop case study (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Bastien, N., Arthur, S., Wallis, S., & Scholz, M. (2010, June). Runoff infiltration: A desktop case study. Presented at NOVATECH, 7th International Conference on Sustainable Techniques and Strategies in Urban Water Management, Lyon, France

Improving communities through knowledge intensive regeneration - Mediacity Iconic Project : 2nd deliverable about vision for BIM&GIS integration for sustainable communities (2010)
Report
Arayici, Y., Ozturk, Z., Sharman, H., & Egbu, C. Improving communities through knowledge intensive regeneration - Mediacity Iconic Project : 2nd deliverable about vision for BIM&GIS integration for sustainable communities

This study is about to measure and project the impact of regeneration projects on the surrounding communities via the expansion of BIM with GIS from building scale to urban scale in order to be able to consider social sustainability indicators as wel... Read More about Improving communities through knowledge intensive regeneration - Mediacity Iconic Project : 2nd deliverable about vision for BIM&GIS integration for sustainable communities.

Mining time series data : case of predicting consumption patterns in steel industry (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Fazel, A., Saraee, M., & Shamsinejad, P. (2010, June). Mining time series data : case of predicting consumption patterns in steel industry. Presented at The 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Mining, Chengdu, China

Analyzing and predicting with Time series is a method which used in different fields, including consumption pattern analyzing and predicting. In this paper, required amount of inventory items have been predicted with time series. At first, desired da... Read More about Mining time series data : case of predicting consumption patterns in steel industry.

Prediction performance improvement for highly imbalanced monitoring data (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Li, Y., Maguire, L., McCann, M., & Johnston, A. (2010, June). Prediction performance improvement for highly imbalanced monitoring data. Presented at 7th International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Machinery Failure Prevention Technologies 2010, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

In engineering applications, we often face highly imbalanced data problems where majority of the data are from a condition and small minority are from others. Directly learning classifier on such problems would be prone to a biased classification per... Read More about Prediction performance improvement for highly imbalanced monitoring data.

Helmholtz pulse propagation & spatially-dispersive light (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Christian, J., Hodgkinson, T., McDonald, G., & Chamorro-Posada, P. (2010, June). Helmholtz pulse propagation & spatially-dispersive light. Presented at Nonlinear Photonics (NP), Karlsruhe, Germany

We present the first detailed account of modelling pulses in Helmholtz-type nonlinear systems with both temporal and spatial dispersion. Exact analytical solitons will be reported, and their stability examined through mathematical analysis and comput... Read More about Helmholtz pulse propagation & spatially-dispersive light.