Impact of aleatoric, stochastic and epistemic uncertainties on project cost contingency reserves

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العنوان: Impact of aleatoric, stochastic and epistemic uncertainties on project cost contingency reserves
المؤلفون: Curto, David, Acebes, Fernando, Gonzalez-Varona, Jose M, Poza, David
المصدر: International Journal of Production Economics 253, 108626 2022
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Quantitative Finance
Statistics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Statistics - Applications, Quantitative Finance - Risk Management
الوصف: In construction projects, contingency reserves have traditionally been estimated based on a percentage of the total project cost, which is arbitrary and, thus, unreliable in practical cases. Monte Carlo simulation provides a more reliable estimation. However, works on this topic have focused exclusively on the effects of aleatoric uncertainty, but ignored the impacts of other uncertainty types. In this paper, we present a method to quantitatively determine project cost contingency reserves based on Monte Carlo Simulation that considers the impact of not only aleatoric uncertainty, but also of the effects of other uncertainty kinds (stochastic, epistemic) on the total project cost. The proposed method has been validated with a real-case construction project in Spain. The obtained results demonstrate that the approach will be helpful for construction Project Managers because the obtained cost contingency reserves are consistent with the actual uncertainty type that affects the risks identified in their projects.
Comment: 15 pages
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108626
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03500
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2406.03500
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv