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Estimation of Costs and Durations of Construction of Urban Roads Using ANN and SVM

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  • Igor Peško
  • Vladimir Mučenski
  • Miloš Šešlija
  • Nebojša Radović
  • Aleksandra Vujkov
  • Dragana Bibić
  • Milena Krklješ

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Offer preparation has always been a specific part of a building process which has significant impact on company business. Due to the fact that income greatly depends on offer’s precision and the balance between planned costs, both direct and overheads, and wished profit, it is necessary to prepare a precise offer within required time and available resources which are always insufficient. The paper presents a research of precision that can be achieved while using artificial intelligence for estimation of cost and duration in construction projects. Both artificial neural networks (ANNs) and support vector machines (SVM) are analysed and compared. The best SVM has shown higher precision, when estimating costs, with mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of 7.06% compared to the most precise ANNs which has achieved precision of 25.38%. Estimation of works duration has proved to be more difficult. The best MAPEs were 22.77% and 26.26% for SVM and ANN, respectively.

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  • Igor Peško & Vladimir Mučenski & Miloš Šešlija & Nebojša Radović & Aleksandra Vujkov & Dragana Bibić & Milena Krklješ, 2017. "Estimation of Costs and Durations of Construction of Urban Roads Using ANN and SVM," Complexity, Hindawi, vol. 2017, pages 1-13, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:complx:2450370
    DOI: 10.1155/2017/2450370
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