Applied artificial intelligence for predicting construction projects delay

Christian Nnaemeka Egwim, Hafiz Alaka, Luqman Olalekan Toriola-Coker, Habeeb Balogun and Funlade Sunmola 2021. Applied artificial intelligence for predicting construction projects delay. Machine Learning with Applications. 6 100166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mlwa.2021.100166

TitleApplied artificial intelligence for predicting construction projects delay
TypeJournal article
AuthorsChristian Nnaemeka Egwim, Hafiz Alaka, Luqman Olalekan Toriola-Coker, Habeeb Balogun and Funlade Sunmola
Abstract

This study presents evidence of a developed ensemble of ensembles predictive model for delay prediction – a global phenomenon that has continued to strangle the construction sector despite considerable mitigation efforts. At first, a review of the existing body of knowledge on influencing factors of construction project delay was used to survey experts to approach its quantitative data collection. Secondly, data cleaning, feature selection, and engineering, hyperparameter optimization, and algorithm evaluation were carried out using the quantitative data to train ensemble machine learning algorithms (EMLA) – bagging, boosting, and naïve bayes, which in turn was used to develop hyperparameter optimized predictive models: Decision Tree, Random Forest, Bagging, Extremely Randomized Trees, Adaptive Boosting (CART), Gradient Boosting Machine, Extreme Gradient Boosting, Bernoulli Naive Bayes, Multinomial Naive Bayes, and Gaussian Naive Bayes. Finally, a multilayer high performant ensemble of ensembles (stacking) predictive model was developed to maximize the overall performance of the EMLA combined. Results from the evaluation metrics: accuracy score, confusion matrix, precision, recall, f1 score, and Compute Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (ROC AUC) indeed proved that ensemble algorithms are capable of improving the predictive force relative to the use of a single algorithm in predicting construction projects delay.

KeywordsArtificial intelligence
Machine learning
Ensemble of ensembles
Ensemble learning
Project delay
Predictive analytics
Article number100166
JournalMachine Learning with Applications
Journal citation6
ISSN2666-8270
Year2021
PublisherElsevier
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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
File Access Level
Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mlwa.2021.100166
Publication dates
Published25 Sep 2021
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