Information-Oriented Models and Methods for Construction Project Supply Chain Coordination

This work focuses on establishing coordination models and method with different information in the operation process of established construction project supply chains (CPSCs). A two-level programming model for collaborative decision making is established to find optimal solutions for all stakeholders in CPSCs. An agent-based negotiation framework for CPSCs coordination in dynamic decision environment is designed based on the intelligent agent technology and multi-attribute negotiation theory. This work also presents a relative entropy method to help negotiators (stakeholders) reaches an acceptable solution when negotiations fail or man-made termination. This is a summary of the first author’s Ph.D. thesis supervised by Yaowu Wang and Geoffrey Qiping Shen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and defended on 25 June 2006 at the Harbin Institute of Technology (China).