Prediction of pavement performance: Application of support vector regression with different kernels

H Ziari, M Maghrebi, J Ayoubinejad… - Transportation …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The pavement performance model is a basic part of the pavement management system. The
prediction accuracy of the model depends on the number of effective variables and the type …

Hazard-based model for concrete pouring duration using construction site and supply chain parameters

M Ghasri, M Maghrebi, TH Rashidi, ST Waller - Automation in Construction, 2016 - Elsevier
Duration of concrete pouring task is typically considered from the arrival time of the first
Ready Mixed Concrete (RMC) truck until the end of the pouring process of the last truck. In …

Feasibility study of automatically performing the concrete delivery dispatching through machine learning techniques

M Maghrebi, C Sammut, ST Waller - Engineering, Construction and …, 2015 - emerald.com
Feasibility study of automatically performing the concrete delivery dispatching through machine
learning techniques | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies Expert Briefings Open …

Assessing the accuracy of expert-based decisions in dispatching ready mixed concrete

M Maghrebi, S Travis Waller… - Journal of Construction …, 2014 - ascelibrary.org
In ready mixed concrete (RMC) dispatching, common practice is to rely on human experts for
any necessary real-time decision making. This is because of the perceived complexity of …

Sequential meta-heuristic approach for solving large-scale ready-mixed concrete–dispatching problems

M Maghrebi, S Travis Waller… - Journal of Computing in …, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
Finding a practical solution for the allocation of resources in ready-mixed concrete (RMC) is
a challenging issue. In the literature, heuristic methods have been mostly used for solving …

Column generation‐based approach for solving large‐scale ready mixed concrete delivery dispatching problems

M Maghrebi, V Periaraj, ST Waller… - Computer‐Aided Civil …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ready mix concrete (RMC) dispatching forms a critical component of the construction supply
chain. However, optimization approaches within the RMC dispatching continue to evolve …

Solving ready-mixed concrete delivery problems: Evolutionary comparison between column generation and robust genetic algorithm

M Maghrebi, V Periaraj, ST Waller… - Computing in Civil and …, 2014 - ascelibrary.org
An effective resource allocation technique is required for each Ready-Mixed Concrete
(RMC). Finding the optimum solution for large-scale RMC dispatching problems with …

Matching experts' decisions in concrete delivery dispatching centers by ensemble learning algorithms: Tactical level

M Maghrebi, T Waller, C Sammut - Automation in Construction, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Ready Mixed Concrete (RMC) suffers from a lack of practical solutions for automatic
resource allocation. Under these circumstances, RMC dispatching systems are mostly …

Optimality gap of experts' decisions in concrete delivery dispatching

M Maghrebi, ST Waller, C Sammut - Journal of Building Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Concrete delivery dispatching suffers from a lack of practical solutions and therefore, in the
absence of automatic solutions, experts are hired to handle this task. In addition, the …

[PDF][PDF] Using benders decomposition for solving ready mixed concrete dispatching problems

M Maghrebi, V Periaraj, ST Waller… - 31st Int. Symp. on …, 2014 - researchgate.net
Large scale dispatching problems are technically characterized as classical a NP-hard
problem which means that they cannot be solved optimally with existing methods in a …