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Prediction Liquidated Damages via Ensemble Machine Learning Model: Towards Sustainable Highway Construction Projects

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  • Odey Alshboul

    (Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The Hashemite University, P.O. Box 330127, Zarqa 13133, Jordan)

  • Ali Shehadeh

    (Department of Civil Engineering, Hijjawi Faculty for Engineering Technology, Yarmouk University, Shafiq Irshidatst, Irbid 21163, Jordan)

  • Rabia Emhamed Al Mamlook

    (Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA
    Department of Aviation Engineering, Al-Zawiya University, Al-Zawiya P.O. Box 16418, Libya)

  • Ghassan Almasabha

    (Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The Hashemite University, P.O. Box 330127, Zarqa 13133, Jordan)

  • Ali Saeed Almuflih

    (Department of Industrial Engineering, King Khalid University, King Fahad St, Guraiger, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia)

  • Saleh Y. Alghamdi

    (Department of Industrial Engineering, King Khalid University, King Fahad St, Guraiger, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia)

Abstract

Highway construction projects are important for financial and social development in the United States. Such types of construction are usually accompanied by construction delay, causing liquidated damages ( L D s ) as a contractual provision are vital in construction agreements. Accurate quantification of L D s is essential for contract parties to avoid legal disputes and unfair provisions due to the lack of appropriate documentation. This paper effort sought to develop an ensemble machine learning technique ( E M L T ) that combines algorithms of the Extreme Gradient Boosting ( X G B o o s t ) , Categorical Boosting ( C a t B o o s t ), k-Nearest Neighbor ( k N N ), Light Gradient Boosting Machine ( L i g h t G B M ), Artificial Neural Network ( A N N ), and Decision Tree ( D T ) for the prediction of L D s in highway construction projects. Key attributes are identified and examined to predict the interrelated correlations among the influential features to develop accurate forecast models to assess the impact of each delay factor. Various machine-learning-based models were developed, where the different modeling outputs were analyzed and compared. Four performance matrices such as Root Mean Square Error ( R M S E ), Mean Absolute Error ( M A E ), Mean Absolute Percentage Error ( M A P E ), and Coefficient of Determination ( R 2 ) were used to assess and evaluate the accuracy of the implemented machine learning ( M L ) algorithms. The prediction outputs implied that the developed EMLT model has shown better performance compared to other ML-based models, where it has the highest accuracy of 0.997, compared to the DT, kNN, CatBoost, XGBoost, LightGBM, and ANN with an accuracy of 0.989, 0.988, 0.986, 0.975, 0.873, and 0.689, respectively. Thus, the findings of this research designate that the EMLT model can be used as an effective administrative decision adding tool for forecasting the L D s . As a result, this paper emphasizes ML’s potential to aid in the advancement of computerization as a comprehensible subject of investigation within highway building projects.

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  • Odey Alshboul & Ali Shehadeh & Rabia Emhamed Al Mamlook & Ghassan Almasabha & Ali Saeed Almuflih & Saleh Y. Alghamdi, 2022. "Prediction Liquidated Damages via Ensemble Machine Learning Model: Towards Sustainable Highway Construction Projects," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-23, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:15:p:9303-:d:875236
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    1. Odey Alshboul & Ali Shehadeh & Ghassan Almasabha & Ali Saeed Almuflih, 2022. "Extreme Gradient Boosting-Based Machine Learning Approach for Green Building Cost Prediction," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(11), pages 1-20, May.
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