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Investigating profitability performance of construction projects using big data: A project analytics approach (2019)
Journal Article
Bilal, M., Oyedele, L. O., Kusimo, H. O., Owolabi, H. A., Akanbi, L. A., Ajayi, A. O., …Davila Delgado, J. M. (2019). Investigating profitability performance of construction projects using big data: A project analytics approach. Journal of Building Engineering, 26, Article 100850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2019.100850

© 2019 The Authors The construction industry generates different types of data from the project inception stage to project delivery. This data comes in various forms and formats which surpass the data management, integration and analysis capabilities... Read More about Investigating profitability performance of construction projects using big data: A project analytics approach.

Development of an IoT-based big data platform for day-ahead prediction of building heating and cooling demands (2019)
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Luo, X. J., Oyedele, L. O., Ajayi, A. O., Monyei, C. G., Akinade, O. O., & Akanbi, L. A. (2019). Development of an IoT-based big data platform for day-ahead prediction of building heating and cooling demands. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 41, Article 100926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2019.100926

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd The emerging technologies of the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data can be utilised to derive knowledge and support applications for energy-efficient buildings. Effective prediction of heating and cooling demands is fundamental... Read More about Development of an IoT-based big data platform for day-ahead prediction of building heating and cooling demands.

Benchmarks for energy access: Policy vagueness and incoherence as barriers to sustainable electrification of the global south (2019)
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Monyei, C. G., Oyedele, L. O., Akinade, O. O., Ajayi, A. O., & Luo, X. J. (2019). Benchmarks for energy access: Policy vagueness and incoherence as barriers to sustainable electrification of the global south. Energy Research and Social Science, 54, 113-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.04.005

© 2019 The unavailability of tangible policy benchmarks continues to mitigate against sustainable electrification in the global south. Furthermore, incoherent policy benchmarks as to what should constitute clean energy allow for varying interpretatio... Read More about Benchmarks for energy access: Policy vagueness and incoherence as barriers to sustainable electrification of the global south.

Disassembly and deconstruction analytics system (D-DAS) for construction in a circular economy (2019)
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Akanbi, L. A., Oyedele, L. O., Omoteso, K., Bilal, M., Akinade, O. O., Ajayi, A. O., …Owolabi, H. A. (2019). Disassembly and deconstruction analytics system (D-DAS) for construction in a circular economy. Journal of Cleaner Production, 223, 386-396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.172

© 2019 Despite the relevance of building information modelling for simulating building performance at various life cycle stages, Its use for assessing the end-of-life impacts is not a common practice. Even though the global sustainability and circula... Read More about Disassembly and deconstruction analytics system (D-DAS) for construction in a circular economy.

Design optimisation using convex programming: Towards waste-efficient building designs (2019)
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Bilal, M., Oyedele, L. O., Akinade, O. O., Delgado, J. M. D., Akanbi, L. A., Ajayi, A. O., & Younis, M. S. (2019). Design optimisation using convex programming: Towards waste-efficient building designs. Journal of Building Engineering, 23, 231-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2019.01.022

© 2019 The Authors A non-modular building layout is amongst the leading sources of offcut waste, resulting from a substantial amount of onsite cutting and fitting of bricks, blocks, plasterboard, and tiles. The field of design for dimensional coordin... Read More about Design optimisation using convex programming: Towards waste-efficient building designs.

An income-reflective scalable energy level transition system for low/middle income households (2018)
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Monyei, C. G., Oyedele, L. O., Akinade, O. O., Ajayi, A. O., Ezugwu, A. E., Akpeji, K. O., …Onunwor, J. C. (2019). An income-reflective scalable energy level transition system for low/middle income households. Sustainable Cities and Society, 45, 172-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2018.10.042

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd In mitigating against energy poverty in Nigeria, research interest has focused mainly on electricity access and reduced electricity bills for low/medium income households. However, energy poverty in the global south is not only a... Read More about An income-reflective scalable energy level transition system for low/middle income households.

Reusability analytics tool for end-of-life assessment of building materials in a circular economy (2018)
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Akanbi, L., Oyedele, L., Davila Delgado, J. M., Bilal, M., Akinade, O., Ajayi, A., & Mohammed-Yakub, N. (2019). Reusability analytics tool for end-of-life assessment of building materials in a circular economy. World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 16(1), 40-55. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJSTSD-05-2018-0041

Purpose – In a circular economy, the goal is to keep materials values in the economy for as long as possible. For the construction industry to support the goal of the circular economy, there is the need for materials reuse. However, there is little o... Read More about Reusability analytics tool for end-of-life assessment of building materials in a circular economy.

Big data platform for health and safety accident prediction (2018)
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Ajayi, A., Oyedele, L., Davila Delgado, J. M., Akanbi, L., Bilal, M., Akinade, O., & Olawale, O. (2019). Big data platform for health and safety accident prediction. World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 16(1), 2-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJSTSD-05-2018-0042

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the use of the big data technologies for health and safety risks analytics in the power infrastructure domain with large data sets of health and safety risks, which are usually sparse and noisy. Des... Read More about Big data platform for health and safety accident prediction.

Salvaging building materials in a circular economy: A BIM-based whole-life performance estimator (2017)
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Akanbi, L. A., Oyedele, L., Akinade, O., Ajayi, A. O., Davila Delgado, M., Bilal, M., & Bello, S. A. (2018). Salvaging building materials in a circular economy: A BIM-based whole-life performance estimator. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 129, 175-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.10.026

© 2017 The Author(s) The aim of this study is to develop a BIM-based Whole-life Performance Estimator (BWPE) for appraising the salvage performance of structural components of buildings right from the design stage. A review of the extant literature w... Read More about Salvaging building materials in a circular economy: A BIM-based whole-life performance estimator.

A synthetic player for Ayὸ board game using alpha-beta search and learning vector quantization (2016)
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Ayilara, O., Ajayi, A. O., & Jimoh, K. (2016). A synthetic player for Ayὸ board game using alpha-beta search and learning vector quantization. Computer and Information Science, 9(3), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.5539/cis.v9n3p1

Game playing especially, Ayὸ game has been an important topic of research in artificial intelligence and several machine learning approaches have been used, but the need to optimize computing resources is important to encourage the significant intere... Read More about A synthetic player for Ayὸ board game using alpha-beta search and learning vector quantization.

Lightweight agents, intelligent mobile agent and RPC Schemes: A comparative analysis (2011)
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Aderounmu, G. A., Olajubu, E. A., Aderounmu, A., & Ajayi, A. (2011). Lightweight agents, intelligent mobile agent and RPC Schemes: A comparative analysis. Journal of Computing and Information Technology, 19(2), 93-104. https://doi.org/10.2498/cit.1001375

This paper presents the performance comparison of Lightweight Agents, Single Mobile Intelligent Agents and Remote Procedure Call which are tools for implementing communication in a distributed computing environment. Routing algorithms for each scheme... Read More about Lightweight agents, intelligent mobile agent and RPC Schemes: A comparative analysis.

A low cost course information syndication system (2011)
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Ajayi, A., Olajubu, E., Bello, S., Soriyan, A., & Obamutide, V. (2011). A low cost course information syndication system. Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 10, 105-118. https://doi.org/10.28945/1390

This study presents a cost-effective, reliable, and convenient mobile web-based system to facilitate the dissemination of course information to students, to support interaction that goes beyond the classroom. The system employed the Really Simple Syn... Read More about A low cost course information syndication system.

A fuzzy logic based multi-agents controller (2010)
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Olajubu, E., Ajayi, A., & Aderounmu, G. A. (2011). A fuzzy logic based multi-agents controller. Expert Systems with Applications, 38(5), 4860-4865. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2010.09.034

This paper presents a fuzzy logic based controller (Multi-Agents System Controller (MASC)) which regulates the number of agents released to the network on a Multi-Agents Systems (MASs). A fuzzy logic (FL) model for the controller is as presented. The... Read More about A fuzzy logic based multi-agents controller.

Development and testing of a graphical FORTRAN learning tool for novice programmers (2010)
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Ninan, D. F., Ajayi, O. A., Olajubu, E., Akinboro, S., Ninan, O., & Soriyan, A. (2010). Development and testing of a graphical FORTRAN learning tool for novice programmers. Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management, 5, 277-291. https://doi.org/10.28945/1176

To address the difficulties associated with computer programming, this article first looks at some reasons why students, especially engineering students, find programming such a daunting prospect, and it proposes a programming learning tool managed b... Read More about Development and testing of a graphical FORTRAN learning tool for novice programmers.

A fuzzy semantic information retrieval system for transactional applications (2009)
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Aderounmu, G. A., Soriyan, H. A., Ajayi, A., Soriyan, A., & Aderounmu, A. (2009). A fuzzy semantic information retrieval system for transactional applications. Data Science Journal, 8, 233-242. https://doi.org/10.2481/dsj.007-038

In this paper, we present an information retrieval system based on the concept of fuzzy logic to relate vague and uncertain objects with un-sharp boundaries. The simple but comprehensive user interface of the system permits the entering of uncertain... Read More about A fuzzy semantic information retrieval system for transactional applications.

An intelligent Quality of Service brokering model for e-commerce (2009)
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Soriyan, H. A., Aderounmu, G. A., Ajayi, A., Aderounmu, A., Soriyan, A., & Amos, D. (2010). An intelligent Quality of Service brokering model for e-commerce. Expert Systems with Applications, 37(1), 816-823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2009.05.103

A fuzzy logic based Quality of Service (QoS) brokering model for e-commerce to manage system and network resources is presented in this study. This model takes into consideration limited bandwidth between clients and their Internet Service Providers;... Read More about An intelligent Quality of Service brokering model for e-commerce.

An adaptive fuzzy information retrieval model to improve response time perceived by e-commerce clients (2009)
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Soriyan, H. A., Aderounmu, G. A., Ajayi, A., Aderounmu, A., & Soriyan, A. (2010). An adaptive fuzzy information retrieval model to improve response time perceived by e-commerce clients. Expert Systems with Applications, 37(1), 82-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2009.05.071

In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy logic-based information retrieval model is presented to enable users retrieve exact and specific information they sort after. The proposed IR model takes into consideration the limited bandwidth between ISP and its us... Read More about An adaptive fuzzy information retrieval model to improve response time perceived by e-commerce clients.