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Cost overrun risk assessment and prediction in construction projects: a bayesian network classifier approach

Ashtari, M. A ; Sharif University of Technology | 2022

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.3390/buildings12101660
  3. Publisher: MDPI , 2022
  4. Abstract:
  5. Cost overrun risks are declared to be dynamic and interdependent. Ignoring the relationship between cost overrun risks during the risk assessment process is one of the primary reasons construction projects go over budget. Conversely, recent studies have failed to account for potential interrelationships between risk factors in their machine learning (ML) models. Additionally, the presented ML models are not interpretable. Thus, this study contributes to the entire ML process using a Bayesian network (BN) classifier model by considering the possible interactions between predictors, which are cost overrun risks, to predict cost overrun and assess cost overrun risks. Furthermore, this study compared the BN classifier model’s performance accuracy to that of the Naive Bayes (NB) and decision tree (DT) models to determine the effect of considering possible correlations between cost overrun risks on prediction accuracy. Moreover, the most critical risks and their relationships are identified by interpreting the learned BN model. The results indicated that the 18 BN models demonstrated an average prediction accuracy of 78.86%, significantly higher than the NB and DT. The present study identified the most significant risks as an increase in the cost of materials, lack of knowledge and experience among human resources, and inflation. © 2022 by the authors
  6. Keywords:
  7. Bayesian network classifier ; Cost overrun ; Decision tree ; Machine learning ; Naive Bayes ; Risk assessment
  8. Source: Buildings ; Volume 12, Issue 10 , 2022 ; 20755309 (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/12/10/1660