Advancing Fuzzy Hybrid Techniques for Competency Modeling of Construction Organizations

建筑业对加拿大经济至关重要，占加拿大国内生产总值的6%以上，2011年雇用了超过7%的加拿大劳动力。同年，建筑行业是加拿大破产案件最多的行业，反映了建筑环境的高风险和不确定性。建筑业主和承包商总是在探索新的方法来评估他们的能力，以提高他们的表现和减少项目失败的风险。定义能力的变量既有客观的，容易度量的，也有主观的，难以量化的。胜任力和绩效之间的关系是复杂而难以界定的。模糊逻辑是一种强大的建模技术，它可以量化主观变量和不确定性，并对变量之间的复杂关系进行建模。该技术已成功地应用于施工管理的某些方面，但对于严重依赖专家知识的施工领域，还需要进一步发展。在本研究中，模糊逻辑与其他人工智能建模技术相结合，创建了一个全面的框架，用于定义和评估建筑组织能力，并确定其与绩效的关系。通过将模糊逻辑应用于施工领域，本研究将提供改进的施工不确定性建模方法，并有效地利用专家知识，从而更好地解决施工问题。组织能力评估框架将帮助建筑业主和承包商提高他们的能力和绩效，增加他们的竞争力。帮助建筑组织提高他们的能力将使他们更有利可图，提高建筑设施的质量，创造更安全和更好的工作环境，并有助于雇用加拿大的劳动力。这项研究将有助于加拿大建筑业在全国和全球范围内的整体竞争力，并为加拿大经济和社会做出重大贡献。

The construction industry is vitally important to Canada's economy, representing over 6% of Canada's gross domestic product and employing over 7% of the Canadian workforce in 2011. In the same year, the construction sector was responsible for the most bankruptcy cases in Canada, reflecting the high level of risk and uncertainty in the construction environment. Construction owners and contractors are always exploring new approaches for assessing their competencies to improve their performance and reduce the risks of project failures. The variables that define competency are both objective, and easy to measure, and subjective, and difficult to quantify. The relationship between competencies and performance is complex and difficult to define. Fuzzy logic is a powerful modeling technique that can quantify subjective variables and uncertainty and model complex relationships between variables. This technique has been successfully applied to some aspects of construction management, but it needs further development specifically for the construction domain, which relies heavily on expert knowledge. In this research, fuzzy logic is combined with other artificial intelligence modeling techniques to create a comprehensive framework for defining and evaluating construction organizational competencies and identifying their relationship to performance. By adapting fuzzy logic for the construction domain, this research will provide improved methods of modeling uncertainty in construction and effectively capitalizing on expert knowledge, leading to better solutions for construction problems. The organizational competency assessment framework will help construction owners and contractors improve their competencies and performance and increase their competitiveness. Helping construction organizations improve their competencies will make them more profitable, improve the quality of constructed facilities, create safer and better work environments, and help employ the Canadian workforce. This research will contribute to the overall competitiveness of the Canadian construction industry on a national and global level and make a significant contribution to the Canadian economy and society.