AN INTEGRATED INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR SCHEDULING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

Existing project planning tools for construction programmes have many inherent limitations, such as the need for manual input of data, constant training in planning skills and the lack of means to accumulate expertise. An 'intelligent' construction scheduling advisor, CICONSA, has been conceived and developed to take advantage of state-of-the-art expert system techniques, a popular relational database management system, dBase III, and an established project management system, Hornet. This Paper describes the prototype to illustrate the use of expert system and data-base technologies to overcome such limitations and an illustrative example is presented.