Building Information Modeling

The urban landscape comprises the cityscape and scenery inherent to a region and has various characteristics. Local governments enact urban landscape regulations and must consider residents’ opinions during voluntary activities in the development …

The automation in building code compliance checking has a long history dating back to the 1960s when Fenves et al. ( 1969 ) digitized the American Institute of Steel Construction’s (AISC) specifications into decision tables. Since then, a number of …

Many of the activities performed in construction are repetitive in nature. Activity repetition is most prevalent at a low level in a work breakdown, such as the cycling of equipment in an earthmoving operation or the laying of bricks, but it is …

Studies conducted on the productivity of the construction industries show that the industry could improve efficiency using a standardized workflow across its stakeholders, particularly in the field of electrical construction companies. According …

The association models, appropriate for the analysis of ordinal contingency tables, are presented for two-way and multi-way contingency tables. Their features, properties, and the associated graphs are discussed. The models of uniform association (U)

The classical log-linear models are introduced for two-way and multi-way contingency tables. Estimation theory, goodness-of-fit testing, and model selection procedures are discussed. Characteristic examples are worked out in R and interpreted. Log-li

Breast cancer has the second highest mortality rate in women next to lung cancer. As per clinical statistics, 1 in every 8 women is diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. However, periodic clinical checkups and self-tests help in early …

When medical images are processed by morphological operations, they provide substantial amount of utilizable information. The technological advancement in the field of image analysis and medical imaging domain acquiesces the understating of …