Time-cost optimization at the conceptual design stage using differential evolution

dc.contributor.author Onur Dursun
dc.contributor.author Berk Ekici
dc.contributor.author I. Sevil Sariyildiz
dc.contributor.author Ekici, Berk
dc.contributor.author Sariyildiz, Sevil
dc.contributor.author Dursun, Onur
dc.date.accessioned 2025-10-06T17:52:19Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.description.abstract Concurrent minimization of construction cost and duration is a challenging task for architects through conceptual design. Using differential evolution (DE) this study aims to obtain optimum design solutions that minimize unit cost of construction and construction duration. Single family housing projects in Germany is sampled with the intent of developing objective functions with regression analysis. The results suggests that DE is able to converge a set of optimum design solutions after adequate number of generations. Resemblance between descriptive statistics of the sampled observations and DE results underpins that regression models can be employed to develop objective functions in the presence of reliable and structured data. In addition results by the formal test of hypothesis based on hypervolume indicator offers DE/rand/1/bin outperforms DE/rand/2/bin irrespective of building standard. Last but not least solutions offered by DE allows us to discuss insights regarding design economics. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
dc.identifier.doi 10.1109/CEC.2015.7257161
dc.identifier.isbn 9781479974924
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dc.identifier.uri https://gcris.yasar.edu.tr/handle/123456789/9877
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2015.7257161
dc.language.iso English
dc.publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
dc.relation.ispartof IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC 2015
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dc.subject Conceptual Design, Design Economics, Differential Evolution, Multiple Linear Regression, Paired T-test, Building Codes, Conceptual Design, Costs, Evolutionary Algorithms, Linear Regression, Optimization, Regression Analysis, Conceptual Design Stages, Construction Duration, Descriptive Statistics, Differential Evolution, Hypervolume Indicators, Multiple Linear Regressions, T-tests, Time-cost Optimization, Design
dc.subject Building codes, Conceptual design, Costs, Evolutionary algorithms, Linear regression, Optimization, Regression analysis, Conceptual design stages, Construction duration, Descriptive statistics, Differential Evolution, Hypervolume indicators, Multiple linear regressions, T-tests, Time-cost optimization, Design
dc.subject Conceptual Design
dc.subject Differential Evolution
dc.subject Paired T-Test
dc.subject Multiple Linear Regression
dc.subject Design Economics
dc.title Time-cost optimization at the conceptual design stage using differential evolution
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