Title
Improved Construction Subcontractor Evaluation Performance Using ESIM.
Abstract
The evaluation of potential subcontractors is a complex task for construction companies. The success of such evaluations currently relies heavily on personal factors that include management experience and intuition. The object of this study was to propose a support model that would improve current subcontractor performance evaluation practices. The appropriateness of employing the Evolutionary Support Vector Machine Inference Model (ESIM) in evaluation procedures was studied and analyzed, and a Subcontractor Rating Evaluation Model (SREM) was developed by adapting the ESIM to fit subcontractor performance cases in the historical record. The effectiveness of the proposed SRPM was subsequently validated in a case study on an actual general contractor. The proposed method assigned ratings to subcontractors that were substantively the same as ratings assigned by traditional means. Results demonstrate the value of employing the proposed SREM in subcontractor evaluations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1080/08839514.2012.648403
APPLIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
support vector machine
Computer science,Inference,Support vector machine,Intuition,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
26.0
3
0883-9514
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Min-Yuan Cheng117419.84
Yu-Wei Wu2435.89