This work presents the first attempt to automate the (still manually-handled) mapping of free written work and items’ cost text descriptions, from construction cost documents called bills of quantities (BoQs), into the In- ternational Cost Measurement Standard (ICMS), which will enable benchmarkers to compare and benchmark the performance of projects at a scale that was never done before, and facilitate more effective cost and risk analysis in construction projects.

A software generator for non-Gaussian, colored stochastic processes. The expected applications of the presented algorithm are as diverse as the modeling of some types of vibration or fluctuation which are typically non-Gaussian, the generation of noise which is naturally confined to a domain, or the investigation of the response of many dynamical systems embedded in noise, as the latter deviates from being Gaussian.

Par@Graph is one of the first parallel algorithmic software kits to construct and analyse large-scale graphs from climate time-series.