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Journal Publications:
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Elazouni, A., and Basha, I., “Evaluating the Performance of Construction Equipment Operators in Egypt,” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, Vol. 122, No. 2, June (1996), pp. 109 – 114. [Download] |
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Elazouni, A., “Constructability Improvement of Steel Silos during Field Operations,” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, Vol. 123, No. 1, March (1997), pp. 21- 25. [Download]
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Elazouni, A., Mohieldin, Y., Nosair, I., and Mohamed, A., “Estimating Resource Requirements at Conceptual Design Stage Using Neural Networks,” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 11, No. 4, October (1997), pp. 217 – 223. [Download]
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Elazouni, A., and Abd El-Razek, M., “Adapting Lift-Slab Technology to Construct Submerged Pile Caps,” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, Vol. 126, No. 2, April (2000), pp. 149 – 157. [Download] |
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Elazouni, A., and Metwally, F., “D-SUB: Decision Support System for Subcontracting Construction Works,” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, Vol.126, No. 3, June (2000), pp. 191 – 200. [Download] |
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Elazouni, A., Raslan, M., “Foot-bridge: Project to Implement Management Functions at AASTMT,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education & Practice, ASCE , Vol. 129, No. 1, Jan. (2003), pp 44 – 51. [Download] |
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Elazouni, A., and Gab-Allah, A., “ Finance-Based Scheduling of Construction Projects using Integer Programming,” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, Vol. 130, No. 1, Jan. (2004), pp. 15-24. [Download] |
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Elazouni, A., Ali, A., and Abd-Elrazik, R., “Estimating the Acceptability of New Horizontal Formwork Systems Using Neural Networks,” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, Vol. 131, No. 1, Jan. (2005), pp. 33-41.[Download] .
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Elazouni, A., and Metwally, F., “Finance-Based Scheduling: Tool to maximize Project Profit using Genetic Algorithms,” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, Vol. 131, No. 4, April (2005), pp. 400 – 412. [Download] |
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Elazouni, A., "Classifying Construction Contractors Using Unsupervised-Learning Neural Networks," Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, Vol. 132, No. 12, Dec. (2006), 1242-1253. [Download] |
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Elazouni, A., and Metwally, F., “Expanding Finance-Based Scheduling to Devise Overall-Optimized Project schedules,” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, Vol. 133, No. 1, Jan. (2007), 86-90. [Download] |
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Elazouni, A., and Shaikh, A., "Simulation Model for Determining Maintenance Staffing in Higher-Education Facilities," Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, ASCE, Vol. 22, No. 1, Jan (2008), 54-61. [Download] |
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Elazouni, A., "Heuristic Method for Multi-Project
Finance-Based Scheduling," Construction Management and
Economics, Vol. 27, No. 2, (2009), pp. 199-211.
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Ali, M., and Elazouni, A., "Finance-based CPM/LOB
Scheduling of Projects with Repetitive Nonserial
Activities," Construction Management and Economics,
Vol. 27, No. 9, (2009), pp. 839-856.
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Abido, M., and Elazouni, A. "Precedence-preserving GAs
Operators for Scheduling Problems with Activities' Start
Times Encoding," Journal of Computing in Civil
Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 24, No. 4, July (2010), pp.
345-356.
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Abido, M., and Elazouni, A. "Multiobjective Evolutionary
Finance-based Scheduling: the Entire Projects'
Portfolio," Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering,
ASCE, Vol. 25, No. 1, (2011), pp. 85-97.
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Elazouni, A.,
Abdel-Wahhab, O., "Progress Monitoring of Construction
Projects using Pattern Recognition Techniques"
Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 29, No. 4,
(2011), pp. 355-370.
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Elazouni, A. and
Abido, M. "Multiobjective Evolutionary Finance-based
Scheduling: Individual Projects within a Portfolio,"
Automation in Construction, Vol. 20, No. 7, (2011), pp.
755-766.
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Alghazi, A., Selim,
S., and Elazouni, A. "
Performance of shuffled frog-leaping algorithm in
finance-based scheduling," Journal of Computing in Civil
Engineering, ASCE (accepted).
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Elazouni, A., and
Abido, M. “Bank finance decisions for fund allocation to
contractors using multi-objective evolutionary
optimization,” Construction Management and Economics,
(revised an resubmitted to fulfill the comments of the
first round of revision).
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Alghazi, A., Selim,
S., and Elazouni, A. "Improved Genetic Algorithm for
Finance-based scheduling," Journal of Computing in Civil
Engineering, ASCE, (submitted).
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Alghazi, A., Selim,
S., and Elazouni, A. " Finance-based scheduling using
Metaheuristics: discrete versus continuous optimization
problems," Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering,
ASCE, (submitted).
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Conference Publications: |
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Elazouni, A., “A knowledge-based Approach for Decisions regarding Maintenance Contracting,” Proceedings of the 1 st Transportation Specialty Conference, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, Edmonton, Canada, Vol. IIIb (1996), pp. 37–48. [Download]
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Elazouni, A., and Gab-Allah, A., “A Framework for developing Proactive Approaches for Concurrent Construction,” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference for Building and Construction (Inter Build 99), Cairo, (1999), pp. 407– 417 [Download] . |
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Elazouni, A., El-Kasaby, S., and Metwally, F., “A Decision Support System for Maximizing Contractor Actual Profitability,” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference for Building and Construction (Inter Build 99), Cairo, (1999), pp. 393–405. [Download]
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Elazouni, A. "Masterformat-based System for Evaluating the Performance of Construction Projects using Backward Chaining," Proceedings of the 6th Saudi Engineering Conference, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Vol. 1 (2002), pp. 5-19. [Download]
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Basha, I., Gab-Allah, A., and Elazouni, A. "Project-based Course for Practicing Construction Project Management," Proceedings of the 6th Saudi Engineering Conference, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Vol. 1 (2002), pp. 289–302. [Download]
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Elazouni, A. "Comparison of Cluster Analysis and Unsupervised-Learning Neural Networks in Classifying Construction Contractors" Proceedings of the 1st International Construction Specialty Conference, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, Calgary, Canada, 2006. [Download]
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Elazouni, A. "Finance-based Scheduling: A potential enhancement of construction scheduling techniques" Proceedings of the 2007 Construction research congress, ASCE, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, May 6-8, 2007. [Download]
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Elazouni, A., Abdel-Wahhab, O., "Progress
Monitoring of Erection of Off-Site Produced Units Using
Pattern Recognition "Proceedings of Construction
Management and Economics 25 Conference, University of
Reading, UK, July 16-18, 2007. [Download]
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Elazouni, A., Abdel-Wahhab, O., "Progress
Monitoring of Erection of Off-Site Produced Units Using
Pattern Recognition "Proceedings of Construction
Management and Economics 25 Conference, University of
Reading, UK, July 16-18, 2007. [Download]
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Elazouni, A., Abdel-Wahhab,
O., "Progress Monitoring of Construction Projects Using
Neural Networks Pattern Recognition" Construction
Research Congress CRC, Seattle, USA, April 5-7, 2009.
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Abido, M., and Elazouni, A., "Improved crossover and
mutation operators for Genetic-algorithm project
scheduling,"
2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation,
Trondheim, Norway, May
18-21, 2009.
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Elazouni, A., Abdel-Wahhab, O., "Using
statistical pattern recognition to monitor the erection
progress of off-site produced units"
7th joint Conference of APSEC and 2nd
EACEF, Langkawi, Malaysia, Aug. 4-6, 2009.
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Elazouni, A. and
Abido, M. "Finance-based Scheduling of Multiple
Construction Projects using Multiobjective Evolutionary
Algorithms" 2nd International
Construction Specialty Conference, Canadian Society of
Civil Engineers, St. John’s, Canada, May 27-30, 2009.
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Abdel-Wahhab, O., and Elazouni, A., "Progress Monitoring
of Construction Projects Using Statistical Pattern
Recognition" Construction Research Congress CRC, Banff,
Canada, pp. 1204-1213, May 8-10, 2010.
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Abido, M., and Elazouni, A., " Multiobjective evolutionary
Finance-based scheduling: the entire projects'
portfolio," Proceedings of The International Conference
on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering,
W. Tizani
(Editor),
Nottingham, U.K,
University of Nottingham Press, Paper 200, PP. 399, June
30-July 2, 2010.
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Ahmed, M., Elazouni, A., and Zayed, T., "Assessment of
Activities Criticality Related to Cash Flow Parameters"
3rd International/9th Construction Specialty Conference,
Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Ottawa, Canada,
June 14-17, 2011.
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Research Projects: |
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Elazouni, A., Classifying construction contractors using Unsupervised-learning neural networks, SABIC-2005-006 grant. [Download] |
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Elazouni, A., Finance-based Scheduling of Repetitive Projects Using Genetic Algorithms, FT-2006-14. [Download] |
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Elazouni, A; and Abido, M., Finance-based Scheduling of Multiple Construction Projects, SB-2007-12. [Download] |
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Elazouni, A ., Utilization of Pattern Recognition Techniques to Monitor the Progress of Construction Projects, SB-2008-11. [Download] |
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Elazouni, A; and
Abido, M., "Finance-based Scheduling of Construction
Projects using Evolutionary and Heuristic algorithms,"
KFUPM internal fund/2008 grant (215,100SR), from Sept 1,
2008 till Sept 1, 2010.
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Elazouni, A.,
“Simulation approach for scheduling based on fund
availability for sustained Saudi contracting business,”
KFUPM internal fund/2009 grant (193,995), from June 18
2010 till Dec. 12 2010.
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Patents:
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Elazouni, A., “Discrete-event Simulation Based Method for Staffing Highway Maintenance Crews” U.S.A Patent No. 5,617,342, (1997). [Download] |
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Elazouni, A.,
“Method and Apparatus for Finance-Based Scheduling of
Construction Projects” U.S.A Patent No. 7,644,007
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Elazouni, A., and
Abdel-Wahhab, O., "Design and process scheduling
optimization method" U.S.A Patent Application No.
12,585,237 (2009).
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Abido, M., and
Elazouni, A., "Method of generating
precedence-preserving crossover and mutation operations
in Genetic algorithms" U.S.A Patent Application
No. 12,588,210 (2009). |
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Elazouni, A., and
Abdel-Wahhab, O., "Progress monitoring of construction
projects using pattern recognition techniques" U.S.A
Patent Application No. 12,854,132 (2010).
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Elazouni, A.,
“Extending activities floats in the Critical Path
Method” U.S.A Patent Application No. 12,848,907
(2010).
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Elazouni, A.,
Abido, M., Selim, S., and Alghazi, A., “Method of
Repairing Financially infeasible Genetic Algorithm
Chromosome Encoding Activity Start Times in Scheduling”
U.S.A Patent Application No. 12/872,690 (2010).
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