Muhammad Ayat

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Assistant Professor (UK's Lecturer AC3) at University of the West of Scotland

Purpose The study aims to examine the impact of key variables on the success of solicited and unsolicited private participation in infrastructure (PPI) projects using machine learning techniques. Design/methodology/approach The data has information on 8,674 PPI projects primarily derived from the World Bank database. In the study, a machine learni...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the outcome of construction projects and explore the moderating effects of emerging technologies on the relationship between COVID-19 and construction project outcomes. Design/methodology/approach Data for the study was collected through a Web...

The study aims to propose a data mining-based framework to predict the success of private participation in infrastructure projects in developing countries. Data have been collected from the World Bank’s maintained PPI projects database. The proposed framework in this study consists of imputation of missing values, selection of significant features...

The primary purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the unsolicited proposal and the performance of private participation infrastructure (PPI) projects in developing countries. The main dataset for this study was collected from the World Bank database consisting of 8951 PPI projects that occurred in developing countries from 19...

This study examines scholarly communications in the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business (IJMPB) and identifies the journal’s leading trends from 2008 to 2019. This study analyzed a sample of 522 articles published in the IJMPB since its inception in 2008 until 2019. A set of bibliometric measures was used in the study to identify...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to propose an improved framework for managing Private Participation in Infrastructure ICT (PPI-ICT) projects in the context of developing countries since the requirements to manage them are different in several aspects. Design/Methodology: The framework has been proposed based on an exhaustive literature revie...

In this paper, a warranty-maintenance service contract is designed between a manufacturer and third-party agent who provide warranty and maintenance services respectively and may suffer from financial risks due to the demand uncertainty from consumers. We model the utility functions for the firms considering uncertain demand, risk attitude, and dif...

Tunnel construction is considered a bottleneck point in mega construction projects because of higher associated risks and uncertainties. This study is an attempt to identify and rank the causes project overruns in tunnel construction projects in Pakistan and propose a mitigation strategy to minimize their effects. For the given purpose, a total of...

The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected project management organizations especially those conducting large construction projects that involve a large number of people, complex supply chains, and lack of experience and preliminary arrangements in managing remote work. This study aims to analyse the impact of COVID-19 on the construction sector...

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought profound changes to all sectors of society including the construction sector. The main purpose of this study is to explore and provide insights into the impact and changes that have occurred in the construction sector due to COVID-19 and to present a mitigation framework to minimize the effects. Design/me...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that determines whether how much effort of preventive maintenance action is worthwhile for the consumer over the post-sale product lifecycle of a repairable complex product where the product is under warranty and subjects to stochastic multi-mode failure process, i.e., damaging failure and li...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the current literature that has explored project success in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector. The literature search was carried out for related articles in three databases: the Web of Science, Scopus and Ebscohost. Using a systematic literature review (SLR) methodology, 75 relate...

Pakistan facing serious problem of electricity couple with handling of waste water generated from industries. In this regard study was focused to investigate the reduction of waste water from industry couple with energy generation from that source. Different blending ratio of cow dung manure was used with distillery waste water to make substrate fo...

Pakistan facing serious problem of electricity couple with handling of waste water generated from industries. In this regard study was focused to investigate the reduction of waste water from industry couple with energy generation from that source. Different blending ratio of cow dung manure was used with distillery waste water to make substrate fo...

Assembly lines are the most important components of mass production systems. The unequal workload among workstations of assembly line increases work in progress (WIP) and waiting time of manpower and machines. This paper focuses on line balancing of a manufacturing industry assembling Pix Cassette Panels. The prime objective of line balancing is to...

Spare parts inventory is vital to for smooth production processes and increasing equipment uptime. It is always complex to manage spare parts inventory because of its higher number of varieties and lower demands. The purpose of this study is to identify the spare parts inventory that needs stringent control and ensure an economical and optimal quan...

Youth is critical to the future of a nation and Pakistan is home to second largest youth in the world. The accidents of 9/11 followed by persistent deadly waves of terrorist attacks, massive migrations from conflict zones, and emergence of internet and social media have increased the gap between generations. The today young generation of Pakistan h...

Abstract: Many organizations remain stuck in a condition of poor performance what we called capability trap. They failed to improve their performances for long term despite of huge investment. The primary purpose of this study is to understand the reasons of capability trap in universities. We expanded a model of capability trap proposed by Repenni...

Abstract: Currently pharmaceutical companies are using automated manufacturing facilities. These manufacturing facilities are interconnected or stand alone to perform the different operations to manufacture the final product. In case of failure in any section of the machine, productions stops or there are wastages in terms of rejection, low quality...

Abstract: Ambient air is very essential for the health of every living being. Quality of ambient air is become growing issue of entire world. This research study has focused ambient air quality of the Korangi and North Nazimabad areas of Karachi. As Karachi is the main industrial hub of Pakistan where various types of industries emit black smoke wi...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the overruns in term of cost and schedule of coal power plant project carried out by Descon Engineering Ltd, Karachi. For the case study, we obtained data from the progress reports of contractor, through performed surveys and interviews of project team. Earned value management (EVM) tool is mainly used for th...

In today world, people became more time conscious and luxury loving, which resulted in the diversion of people's attention from ancient means of transportation to the modern ways i.e. aviation. The transition not only facilitated people but increased the air traffic and the number of aviation accidents as well. The purpose of this study is to find...

Abstract: In the current century, the students in the current century has a different political, economic, social, and cultural world than the students in the previous century. As a result, many countries consider that they must educate and involve their students in cultures beyond their country’s boundaries in the hope of producing inter-culturall...

This paper is a study of staff issues at the bank, ICBC China. Due to extra and imbalanced staff, the system was idle most of the time. By using the qualitative approach, M/M/s queuing model and discrete event simulation, the staff was sub-optimized. First, observation of the system was conducted and recorded using the existing operations system us...