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Infrastructure project planning decision making: Challenges for decision support system applications

Most infrastructure project share the same characteristics in term of management aspects and shortcomings.Human factor is believed to be the major drawbacks due to the nature of unstructured problems which can further contribute to management conflicts.This growing complexity in infrastructure proje...

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Main Authors: Omar, Mohd Faizal, Trigunarsyah, Bambang, Wong, Johnny
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Language:English
Published: 2009
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QA76 Computer software
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spelling my.uum.repo.174042016-03-01T01:12:22Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/17404/ Infrastructure project planning decision making: Challenges for decision support system applications Omar, Mohd Faizal Trigunarsyah, Bambang Wong, Johnny QA76 Computer software Most infrastructure project share the same characteristics in term of management aspects and shortcomings.Human factor is believed to be the major drawbacks due to the nature of unstructured problems which can further contribute to management conflicts.This growing complexity in infrastructure projects has shift the paradigm of policy makers to adopt Information Communication Technology (ICT) as a driving force.For this reason, it is vital to fully maximise and utilise the recent technologies to accelerate management process particularly in planning phase.Therefore, a lot of tools have been developed to assist decision making in construction project management.The variety of uncertainties and alternatives in decision making can be entertained by using useful tool such as Decision Support System (DSS).However, the recent trend shows that most DSS in this area only concentrated in model development and left few fundamentals of computing.Thus, most of them were found complicated and less efficient to support decision making within project team members. Due to the current incapability of many software aspects, it is desirable for DSS to provide more simplicity, better collaborative platform, efficient data manipulation and reflection to user needs.By considering these factors, the paper illustrates four challenges for future DSS development i.e. requirement engineering, communication framework, data management and interoperability, and software usability. 2009-08-04 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/17404/7/EACEF2009_146_152.pdf Omar, Mohd Faizal and Trigunarsyah, Bambang and Wong, Johnny (2009) Infrastructure project planning decision making: Challenges for decision support system applications. In: 7th Asia Pacific Structural Engineering and Construction Conference & 2nd European Asian Civil Engineering Forum, 4- 6 August 2009, Awana Porto Malai, Langkawi. http://www.eacef.com/images/Proceeding_eacef_2007/eacef_2009/volume_1/146-152_files/146-152.swf
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Omar, Mohd Faizal
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Wong, Johnny
Infrastructure project planning decision making: Challenges for decision support system applications
description Most infrastructure project share the same characteristics in term of management aspects and shortcomings.Human factor is believed to be the major drawbacks due to the nature of unstructured problems which can further contribute to management conflicts.This growing complexity in infrastructure projects has shift the paradigm of policy makers to adopt Information Communication Technology (ICT) as a driving force.For this reason, it is vital to fully maximise and utilise the recent technologies to accelerate management process particularly in planning phase.Therefore, a lot of tools have been developed to assist decision making in construction project management.The variety of uncertainties and alternatives in decision making can be entertained by using useful tool such as Decision Support System (DSS).However, the recent trend shows that most DSS in this area only concentrated in model development and left few fundamentals of computing.Thus, most of them were found complicated and less efficient to support decision making within project team members. Due to the current incapability of many software aspects, it is desirable for DSS to provide more simplicity, better collaborative platform, efficient data manipulation and reflection to user needs.By considering these factors, the paper illustrates four challenges for future DSS development i.e. requirement engineering, communication framework, data management and interoperability, and software usability.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Omar, Mohd Faizal
Trigunarsyah, Bambang
Wong, Johnny
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Trigunarsyah, Bambang
Wong, Johnny
author_sort Omar, Mohd Faizal
title Infrastructure project planning decision making: Challenges for decision support system applications
title_short Infrastructure project planning decision making: Challenges for decision support system applications
title_full Infrastructure project planning decision making: Challenges for decision support system applications
title_fullStr Infrastructure project planning decision making: Challenges for decision support system applications
title_full_unstemmed Infrastructure project planning decision making: Challenges for decision support system applications
title_sort infrastructure project planning decision making: challenges for decision support system applications
publishDate 2009
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