TY  - BOOK
AU  - Areej Mohamed Mahmoud Zaki
AU  - Hisham Mohamed Abdelsalam , 
AU  - Ihab Ahmed Fahmy Elkhodary , 
TI  - Analyzing projects{u2019} sustainability using simulation techniques / 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Areej Mohamed Mahmoud Zaki , 
KW  - Projects{u2019} sustainability
KW  - Simulation techniques
KW  - Sustainability
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Computers and Information - Department of Operation Research and Decision Support; Issued also as CD
N2  - Sustainability development was first defined as development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs [1]. Since then sustainability has become widely applied specially when considering construction projects as a result of the huge leap in the global urbanization rates. Sustainability in construction projects was defined as building a healthy environment without wasting any resources such that all the resources are used efficiently and also not harming the community and the environment surrounding [2]. Researchers are continuously attempting to find accurate and reliable sustainability construction performance measures. However, most of these researches focus on studying sustainability in a single construction project, although it should be worthwhile studying sustainability in multiple construction projects in order to maximize the overall sustainability. In this work, a Simulation Optimization Framework that integrates Simulated Annealing (SA) and System Dynamics (SD) was developed for scheduling the different phases in their right sequence of multi-construction projects while maximizing the overall sustainability. This was done while assessing sustainability development and simulating the effect of external factors such as technological advancement and change in people{u2019}s perception on sustainability measures using Zhang et al{u2019}s [3] prototype System Dynamics (SD) model
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