Construction Project Management System (CPMS): An Ontological Framework

Proceedings of Research and Education Conference (PMIREC) 2011, Pune, India

7 Pages Posted: 19 May 2012

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Arkalgud Ramaprasad

University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Information and Decision Sciences

A. N. Prakash

A. N. Prakash Construction Project Management Constultants Pvt Ltd

Nagesh Ramamurthy

CBRE South Asia Pvt. Ltd.

Date Written: December 9, 2011

Abstract

This paper presents on ontological framework to envision a construction project management system (CPMS). The framework has five dimensions: Outcomes, Stages, Resources, Processes and Management techniques. Each dimension is defined by a taxonomy derived from the literature and practice. The dimensions are ordered left to right such that a meaningful natural language sentence describing an attribute of CPMS can be concatenated by selecting a word from each column and combining the selected words with the words interleaved between the columns. There are 11,970 potential CPMS attributes encapsulated in the ontology. Ideally a CPMS should emphasize all of them; practically it will likely focus on a subset selected based on the characteristics of the project and its environment. The challenge in designing a CPMS is to include the key attributes and exclude the less important ones. The ontology will help make these systemic choices systematically by displaying all the possibilities. However, in doing so, one has to consider the interactions among the categories of a dimension and between dimensions. These interactions play an important role in the dynamics of CPMS. The paper discusses some illustrative interactions.

Keywords: construction project management, ontology, envisioning, systems approach

Suggested Citation

Ramaprasad, Arkalgud and Prakash, A. N. and Ramamurthy, Nagesh, Construction Project Management System (CPMS): An Ontological Framework (December 9, 2011). Proceedings of Research and Education Conference (PMIREC) 2011, Pune, India, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2062696 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2062696

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