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A fuzzy consensus building framework for early alignment of construction project teams on the extent of their roles and responsibilities
DownloadFall 2010
This thesis presents a Fuzzy Consensus Building Framework (FCBF), which enables construction project parties to align their teams on their roles and responsibilities early on in their projects. The framework introduces a model that (1) incorporates consensus of construction project teams in...
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Consensus Building and Optimization in Group Decision-Making for the Risk Assessment of Wind Farm Project
DownloadSpring 2021
Infrastructure projects for harnessing renewable energy (e.g., Wind Farm Project) have recently gained popularity because of their low adverse impact on the environment. However, the risk assessment of the Wind Farm Project involves numerous challenges since historical data for these projects are...
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Dynamic Periodic Event-triggered Multi-agent Consensus Using Relative-state Measurements: A Hybrid System Approach
DownloadFall 2024
Driven by technological advances in emerging fields such as autonomous vehicles, robots, and industrial internet-of-things, multi-agent systems (MASs) continue to be a prominent research area within Control Systems. Often, in practical applications, the agents employ information obtained from...
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Reading Rawls’s Lectures on Hobbes’s Leviathan: Pluralism, Stability, and Political Consensus
DownloadSpring 2014
This work examines Rawls’s lectures on Hobbes, which are delivered at a time when Rawls is developing his political liberalism. It especially seeks to question the foundations of Rawls’s interpretation of Hobbes’s Leviathan as presenting a core “political” doctrine based around prudential egoism....