Rule Based Forward Chaining Technique for Detecting and Controlling Fraud in Project Monitoring System

摘要

The increasing nature of construction or building project and the continuous nature of fraudulent activitiesbeing executed by the contractors on site has led project engineers / managers the quest for softwaresolutions for monitoring and managing project activities from start to finish. The software solutions formanaging construction projects like the Microsoft projects, Project commander, Procore, Co-Construct,etc which can only solve problems of project planning and activities scheduling but cannot handle preplanningprocesses like workflow activities between the stakeholders and also cannot handle frauddetection or control in on-going projects. This research work proposed a model and developed a web basedsoftware solution based on the proposed architectural model to fill in the gap. The Rule-based forwardchaining techniques was used to realize the fraud detection and control objective. Use-case diagram wasused to model the application behavior. HTML, JavaScript, Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), jQuery andMySQL implementation tools were used to develop the software prototype. The proposed system wastested; results revealed that the system is able to achieve its objectives effectively.