Collaborative Evolution Mechanism of PMC Project Organizational Management System from the Perspective of Organizational Conflict

Limited by traditional construction project management ideas and systems, the implementation of the PMC model in China still has serious problems such as opposition and frequent conflicts. How to reveal the causes of organizational conflicts and explore the key mechanism of the implementation of the PMC model from the system perspective are urgent problems to be solved. Based on the idea of engineering system view, this paper abstracts the PMC project participants with self-organizing characteristics of the organizational management system, in which the internal structure is closely related, and defines the connotation of synergy and synergistic evolution of the PMC project organizational management system. Using the Cucker–Smale model to describe the group movement, the hierarchical system and the acceleration efficiency function of the project legal person’s free will are constructed, and the structure, movement, and development law of the system itself are emphasized to simulate the ordered evolution trend of PMC project organizational management system and reveal the intrinsic causes of conflicts in PMC project and the key mechanisms of the PMC model application. The results show that first, the intensity of information communication between PMC subjects has a significant positive contribution to the orderliness of the organizational management system; second, too much acceleration of the project legal person’s free will causes group chaos in the system, while too little slows down the group stabilization time, which has a negative impact on cost and schedule; third, the more the organizational structure of PMC contractors tends to the whole-process integrated control, the more it can drive the group to gather in an orderly manner and form a synergistic control mode combining self-organization and other organizations; and fourth, the implementation of the PMC model should focus on eliminating the traditional institutional and conceptual barriers, forming a project management model with integrated control of the whole process of the PMC project contractor and effective macro supervision of the project legal person. The research results of this paper revealed the intrinsic causes of conflicts in PMC projects and the key mechanisms of PMC model application; it can help solve the confrontational situation of PMC project participants, promote the development of the PMC model, and give full play to the investment benefits.

Research on the coordination mechanism of major industrial project engineering and construction multi-agents based on structural holes theory

Industry is an important pillar of the national economy. Industrial projects are the most complex and difficult projects to control in the construction industry, and major industrial projects are even more complex and difficult to control. Multi-agent coordination is one of the core issues of industrial projects. Based on an analysis of the engineering and construction chains and agent relationships and agent networks of industrial projects, a complex network of the engineering and construction agents of industrial projects is established, and the complex network structural holes theory is applied to study the nonrepeated relationships among agents in industrial projects. Assuming agents are linked through contract relations and the most critical contract index between the agents in the contract amount, through structural hole analysis considering the EPC and PMC model, the aggregate constraint list is obtained, 2D network diagram and 3D network diagram are shown. According to the aggregate constraint value, the EPC contractor with the minimum aggregate constraint value and the project management company with the minimum aggregate constraint value are the critical agent in EPC and PMC model. By analyzing the complex network comprising different models of industrial projects, it is concluded that the characteristics of the agent maintain an advantage in competition, the coordination mechanism of the integration of agent interests, and multi-agent relations are considered to solve the multi-agent coordination problem in major industrial projects.

Pandemic Metric with Confidence (PMC) Model to Predict Trustworthy Probability of Utilized COVID-19 Pandemic Trajectory across the Global

Lots of works aim to reveal the driving factors of COVID-19 pandemic trajectory yet ignore the confidence of utilized trajectory data, making consequent results suspicious. Hereby, we proposed a pandemic metric with confidence (PMC) model in the hypothesis of Bernoulli Distribution of nine trajectories reported from 113 countries. Results exhibit the average confidence of trajectories across the global not in excess of 12.1% with the error threshold configuration of 1E-5. In contrast, the 95% high confidence setting also failed to predict the trajectory containing the acceptable error not beyond 1E-3. Thus, a proposed trade-off strategy between two contradictory expections (>50% confidence, <1E-3 error) supports 61% of investigated countries to predict the varying trajectory with confidence beyond 50%. Moreover, PMC model recommend the remanent 39% countries to extend the proportion of populaces in COVID-19 detecting-pool to a suggested-value (>1% of populations), ensuing the average confidence up to 70%.

Adaptive Diagnosis of Hamiltonian Networks under the Comparison Model

Adaptive diagnosis is an approach in which tests can be scheduled dynamically during the diagnosis process based on the previous test outcomes. Naturally, reducing the number of test rounds as well as the total number of tests is a major goal of an efficient adaptive diagnosis algorithm. The adaptive diagnosis of multiprocessor systems under the PMC model has been widely investigated, while adaptive diagnosis using comparison model has been independently discussed only for three networks, including hypercube, torus, and completely connected networks. In addition, adaptive diagnosis of general Hamiltonian networks is more meaningful than that of special graph. In this paper, the problem of adaptive fault diagnosis in Hamiltonian networks under the comparison model is explored. First, we propose an adaptive diagnostic scheme which takes five to six test rounds. Second, we derive a dynamic upper bound of the number of fault nodes instead of setting a value like normal. Finally, we present an algorithm such that at least one sequence obtained from cycle partition can be picked out and all nodes in this sequence can be identified based on the previous upper bound.

The r-Extra Diagnosability of Hyper Petersen Graphs

The diagnosability of a multiprocessor system or an interconnection network plays an important role in measuring the fault tolerance of the network. In 2016, Zhang et al. proposed a new measure for fault diagnosis of the system, namely, the [Formula: see text]-extra diagnosability, which restrains that every fault-free component has at least [Formula: see text] fault-free nodes. As a famous topology structure of interconnection networks, the hyper Petersen graph [Formula: see text] has many good properties. It is difficult to prove the [Formula: see text]-extra diagnosability of an interconnection network. In this paper, we show that the [Formula: see text]-extra diagnosability of [Formula: see text] is [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in the PMC model and for [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in the MM[Formula: see text] model.

Reliability Evaluation of Generalized Exchanged Hypercubes Based on Imprecise Diagnosis Strategies

Fault diagnostic analysis is extremely important for interconnection networks. The [Formula: see text]-diagnosis imprecise strategy plays an essential role in the reliability of networks. The [Formula: see text]-diagnosis strategy can detect up to [Formula: see text] faulty vertices which might include at most [Formula: see text] misdiagnosed vertices. The exchanged hypercube is obtained by systematically removing links from a binary hypercube, which has smaller maximum degree and Wiener index than the hypercube. We use [Formula: see text] to denote the generalized exchanged hypercube, and show in this paper that [Formula: see text] is [Formula: see text]-diagnosable with [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] under the PMC model and MM[Formula: see text] model. We also propose a [Formula: see text]-diagnosis algorithm on [Formula: see text]. As a side benefit, the [Formula: see text]-diagnosability of the dual-cube-like network [Formula: see text] can be directly obtained from our results.

An Exchanged 3-Ary n-Cube Interconnection Network for Parallel Computation

The interconnetion network plays an important role in a parallel system. To avoid the edge number of the interconnect network scaling rapidly with the increase of dimension and achieve a good balance of hardware costs and properties, this paper presents a new interconnection network called exchanged [Formula: see text]-ary [Formula: see text]-cube ([Formula: see text]). Compared with the [Formula: see text]-ary [Formula: see text]-cube structures, [Formula: see text] shows better performance in terms of many metrics such as small degree and fewer links. In this paper, we first introduce the structure of [Formula: see text] and present some properties of [Formula: see text]; then, we propose a routing algorithm and obtain the diameter of [Formula: see text]. Finally, we analyze the diagnosis of [Formula: see text] and give the diagnosibility under PMC model and MM* model.