Dharmapalan, Vineeth, William J. O’Brien, and Douglas J. Morrice. (2022). "Defining and Assessing Visibility Enablers in the Industrial Construction Supply Chain." Journal of Management in Engineering 38, no. 4 : 04022024.
Dharmapalan, Vineeth, William J. O’Brien, Douglas Morrice, and Minhyuk Jung. (2021). "Assessment of visibility in industrial construction projects: A viewpoint from supply chain stakeholders." Construction Innovation.
Dharmapalan, Vineeth, William John O'Brien, and Douglas Morrice. (2021). "Defining supply chain visibility for industrial construction projects." Frontiers in Built Environment : 127.
Dharmapalan, V., and W. J. O’Brien. (2020). “AMLTT: Implementation benefits and challenges.” Smart Infrastructure and Construction,171(4), pp. 144-157.
Barry, William, Fernanda Leite, and William J. O’Brien. (2015) "Late deliverable risk catalog: evaluating the impacts and risks of late deliverables to construction sites." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 141, no. 4 : 04014087.
*Azambuja, M.M., *S. Ponticelli, and W. J. O’Brien. (2014). “Strategic Procurement Practices for the Industrial Supply Chain.” ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 140(7), 4 pages.
* P.-C. Liao, S. R. Thomas, and W.J. O’Brien. (2013). “Measuring Information Dependency for Construction Engineering Projects.” Journal of Civil Engineering and Management. 19(2), pp.177-183.
*Azambuja, M. M. and W. J. O’Brien. (2012). “Rapid Assessment and Selection of Engineered Equipment Suppliers.” Automation in Construction, 22, pp. 587-596.
*P.-C. Liao, S. R. Thomas, W.J. O’Brien J. Dai, S. P. Mulva, and I. Kim. (2012). “Benchmarking Project Level Engineering Productivity.” Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 18(2), pp. 235-244.
*P.-C. Liao, W.J. O’Brien, S. R. Thomas, J. Dai, and S. P. Mulva. (2011). “Factors Affecting Engineering Productivity.” ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering, 27(4), pp. 229-235.
*Azambuja, M.M., and W. J. O’Brien. (2010). “Implementation of a Decision Support System for Commercial Evaluation and Selection of Equipment Suppliers.” Proceedings of Construction Research Congress, May 8-10, 2010, Banff, Alberta, Canada, pp. 929-938.
*Wang, T.-K., W. J. O’Brien, and R. R. Wakefield. (2010). “A Decision Support Tool for Subcontractor Multi-Project Resource Allocation.” Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, June 30-July 2 2010, Nottingham, UK, 6 pages.
*Azambuja, M., W. J. O’Brien, and S. Rangarajan. (2009). “A Decision Support Tool for Rapid Assessment and Selection of Engineered Equipment Suppliers.” Proceedings of the 2009 International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, Austin, TX, June 24-27, 2009, pp. 533-542.
*Azambuja, M. M. and W. J. O’Brien. (2009). “Investigation of Supply Chain Management Practices in Industrial Projects: State of Practice vs. State of Knowledge.” Proceedings of the 2009 Construction Research Congress: Building a Sustainable Future, Seattle, WA, April 5-7, 2009, pp. 259-268.
*Xue, X., Q. Shen, H. Li, W. J. O’Brien, Z. Ren. (2009). Improving Agent-Based Negotiation Efficiency in Construction Supply Chains: A relative entropy method. Automation in Construction, 18(7), pp. 975-982.
*Azambuja, M. and W. J. O’Brien (2008). “Construction Supply Chain Modeling: Issues and Perspectives.” In O’Brien, W., Formoso, C., London, K., and Vrijhoef, R. (Eds.) Construction Supply Chain Management Handbook, CRC Press, pp 2.1-2.31.
O’Brien, W. J., C. Formoso, K. London, and R. Vrijhoef (Eds.) (2008). Construction Supply Chain Management Handbook, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 508 pages.
*Azambuja, M. M. B. and W. J. O'Brien (2007). “A Qualitative Evaluation of Construction Supply Chain Visual Process Modeling Tools.” Proceedings of the 2007 ASCE Construction Research Congress, Grand Bahama Island, May 6-8, 2007, 9 pages.
*Yang, B., J. Geunes, and W. J. O’Brien (2004). “A Heuristic Approach for Minimizing Weighted Tardiness and Overtime Costs in Single Resource Scheduling.” Computers and Operations Research, 31(8), pp 1273-1301.
O'Brien, W. J., K. London, and R. Vrijhoef (2004). “Construction Supply Chain Modeling: A Research Review and Interdisciplinary Research Agenda.” ICFAI Journal of Operations Management, 3(3), pp 64-84. (selected reprint of IGLC-10 paper)
Vaidyanathan, K. and W. J. O’Brien (2003). “Opportunities for IT to support the construction supply chain.” Proceedings of the Fourth Joint International Symposium on Information Technology in Civil Engineering, Nashville, TN, November 15-16, 2003, 19 pages.
O’Brien, W. J., R. R. A. Issa, *R. Castro-Raventós, *J. Choi, and J. Hammer (2003). “Inducting subcontractor process ontologies: Challenges, methods and illustrative results.” Proceedings of ASCE Construction Congress 7, Honolulu, HI, March 19-21, 2003, 8 pages.
O’Brien, W. J., K. London, and R. Vrijhoef (2002). “Construction supply chain modeling: a research review and interdisciplinary research agenda.” Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Gramado, Brazil, August 6-8, 2002, pp129-147.
O’Brien, W. (2002). “A Call for Cost and Reference Models for Construction Supply Chains.” Invited White Paper for the Call for Papers for the International Group for Lean Construction Conference-11, held in Blacksburg, VA, August 2003, 3 pages.
O’Brien, W. (2001). “Enabling Technologies for Project Supply Chain Collaboration,” Invited White Paper for the NSF/ICIS Infrastructure and Information Technology Workshop, June 25-27, 2001, Arlington, VA, 4 pages.
*Yang, B., J. Geunes, and W. J. O’Brien (2001). “Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling: Past Work and New Directions.” Working Paper 2001-6, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, 28 pages.
O’Brien, W. J. (2000). “Multi-Project Resource Allocation: Parametric Models and Managerial Implications.” Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, July 17-18, 2000, 11 pages.
O'Brien, W. J. (2000). “Towards 5D CAD - Dynamic Cost and Resource Planning for Specialist Contractors.” Invited paper for the Special Program on 4D CAD and Visualization. In Walsh, K. (Ed.), Proceedings of ASCE Construction Congress 6, Orlando, FL, February 20-22, 2000, pp 1023-1028.
O’Brien, W. J. and M. A. Fischer (2000). “Importance of Capacity Constraints to Construction Cost and Schedule.” ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 126(5), pp 366-373.
O'Brien, W. (1999). “Construction Supply-Chain Management: A Vision for Advanced Coordination, Costing, and Control.” White Paper for the NSF Berkeley-Stanford Construction Research Workshop, Stanford, CA, August 1999, 7 pages.
O’Brien, W. J., M. A. Fischer, and B. H. Akinci (1997). “Importance of Site Conditions and Capacity Allocation for Construction Cost and Performance: A Case Study.” In Tucker, S.N. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, July 16-17, 1997, pp 77-89.
O'Brien, W. (1997). “Construction Supply-Chains: Case Study and Integrated Cost and Performance Analysis.” Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. Reprinted in Luis Alarcón (Ed.). (1997). Lean Construction, The Netherlands, AA Balkema, pp 187-222.
O’Brien, W. J., M. A. Fischer, and J. V. Jucker (1995). “An Economic View of Project Coordination.” Construction Management & Economics, Special Issue on Information Technology in Construction, 13(5), 1995, pp 393-400.
O’Connor, James T., William J. O’Brien, and Jin Ouk Choi. (2016). "Industrial project execution planning: Modularization versus stick-built." Practice periodical on structural design and construction 21, no. 1: 04015014.
O’Connor, James T., William J. O’Brien, and Jin Ouk Choi. (2015). "Standardization strategy for modular industrial plants." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 141, no. 9: 04015026.
O’Connor, J. T., W. J. O’Brien, and *J. O. Choi. (2014). “Critical Success Factors and Enablers for Optimum and Maximum Industrial Modularization.” ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 140(6), 11 pages.
Diekmann, J., Kluck, M., Meyer, W., O’Brien, B., and O’Connor, J. (2013). “Industrial Modularization: Five Solution Elements.” Implementation Resource 283-2, Construction Industry Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 113 pages.
O’Brien, W., Leite, F., and *S. Meeks. (2013). “Enhanced Work Packaging: Design Through Workface Execution.” Research Report 272-11, Construction Industry Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 205 pages.
O’Brien, W., Leite, F., and 26 others. (2013). “Advanced Work Packaging: Implementation Guidance.” Implementation Resource 272-2, Vol. 2, Construction Industry Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 240 pages.
O’Connor, J.T., W. J. O’Brien, and Meyer, W. (2013). “Industrial Modularization: How to Optimize; How to Maximize.” Research Summary 283-1, Construction Industry Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 33 pages.
O’Connor, J.T., W. J. O’Brien, and *J. Choi. (2013). “Industrial Modularization: How to Optimize; How to Maximize.” Research Report 283-11, Construction Industry Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 292 pages.
Leite, F., B. Lynam, W. J. O’Brien, S. Pellegrino, and J. Rammell (2012). Enhanced Work Packaging, Design through Workface Execution, Research Summary 272-1, Construction Industry Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 24 pages. (Reissued in 2013 as Advanced Work Packaging, revised volume with updated research.)
*Meeks, S., F. Leite, and W. O’Brien. (2012). “Advanced Work Packaging: Implementation Case Studies and Expert Interviews.” Implementation Resource 272-2 – Volume 2. Construction Industry Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 112 pages. (Reissued in 2013 as Advanced Work Packaging, revised volume 3 (renumbered) with updated research.)
RT 272 Team (W. O’Brien, F. Leite, *S. Meeks and 13 others). (2011). “Enhanced Work Packaging: Design though Workface Execution.” Implementation Resource 272-2, Vol. 1, Construction Industry Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 140 pages. (Reissued in 2013 as Advanced Work Packaging, revised volume 1 with updated research.)
Kothari, Chirag, Jojo France-Mensah, and William J. O’Brien. (2022). "Developing a Sustainable Pavement Management Plan: Economics, Environment, and Social Equity." Journal of Infrastructure Systems 28, no. 2 : 04022009.
Kothari, Chirag, and William J. O’Brien. (2021). "Assessing Social Equity in Highway Asset Management Plans." In Computing in Civil Engineering, pp. 441-448.
France-Mensah, Jojo, Chirag Kothari, William J. O’Brien, and Junfeng Jiao. (2019). "Integrating social equity in highway maintenance and rehabilitation programming: A quantitative approach." Sustainable Cities and Society 48: 101526.
France-Mensah, Jojo, and William J. O’Brien. (2019). "Developing a sustainable pavement management plan: Tradeoffs in road condition, user costs, and greenhouse gas emissions." Journal of Management in Engineering 35, no. 3 : 04019005.
France-Mensah, Jojo, William J. O’Brien, and Nabeel Khwaja. (2019). "Impact of multiple highway funding categories and project eligibility restrictions on pavement performance." Journal of Infrastructure Systems 25, no. 1: 04018037.
France-Mensah, Jojo, Chirag Kothari, William J. O'Brien, and Nabeel Khwaja. (2019). "Data on highway maintenance, rehabilitation, and mobility projects for integrated planning in Texas." Data in brief 25 : 104367.
France-Mensah, Jojo, and William J. O’Brien. (2018). "Budget allocation models for pavement maintenance and rehabilitation: Comparative case study." Journal of Management in Engineering 34, no. 2: 05018002.
Sankaran, Bharathwaj, and William J. O’Brien. (2018). "Bayesian Second-Order Factor Model for Maturity Assessment of CIM Technologies and Practices at Highway Agencies." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 144, no. 4 : 04018015.
Walton, C. M., *D. Seedah, A. Cruz-Ross, W. J. O’Brien, *P. La Fountain, *P. Agarwal, *B. Sankaran, (2014). “Freight Data Architecture Business Process, Logical Data Model and Physical Data Model.” Research Report 0-6697-P1, Center for Transportation Research, 22 pages.
Walton, C. M., *D. Seedah, A. Cruz-Ross, W. J. O’Brien, *B. Sankaran, *P. La Fountain, *P. Agarwal, J. Prozzi, *M. Cebelak, S. Overmeyer. (2013). “Integrating Public and Private Data Sources for Multimodal Freight Transportation Planning.” Research Report 0-6697-CTR-R1D, Center for Transportation Research, 154 pages.
O’Brien, W. J., J. Hammer, and *M. Siddiqui (2006). “From SEEKing Knowledge to Making Connections: Challenges, Approaches, and Architectures for Distributed Process Integration.” Invited keynote paper and presentation, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4200: Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Architecture, (proceedings of the 13th EG-ICE Workshop, Ascona, Switzerland, June 25-30, 2006), pp 500-518.
Hammer, J. and W. J. O’Brien (2005). “Enabling Supply Chain Coordination: Leveraging Legacy Sources for Rich Decision Support.” In Geunes, J., E. Akçali, P. M. Pardalos, H. E. Romeijn, and Z.-J. Shen. (Eds.). Applications of Supply Chain Management and E-Commerce Research in Industry, Applied Optimization Book Series, Vol. 92, Springer US, pp 253-298.
*Danso-Amoako, M. O., W. J. O’Brien, and R. R. A. Issa (2004). “A case study of IFC and CIS/2 support for steel supply chain processes.” Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE-10), Weimar, Germany, June 2-4, 2004, 12 pages.
O’Brien, W. J. and J. Hammer (2004). “A case study of information integration problems in first responder coalitions.” Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations (KSCO-2004), Pensacola, FL, October 26-28 (postponed), 2004, 145-149.
Hammer, J., W. O’Brien, and M. Schmalz (2003). “Scalable knowledge extraction from legacy sources with SEEK.” Proceedings of the NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Tuscon, AZ, June 2-3, 2003. Reprinted in H. Chen, R. Miranda, D. Zeng., C. Demchak, J. Schroeder, T. Madhusdan (eds.) (2003). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2665: Intelligence and Security Informatics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp 346-350.
O’Brien, W. J., R. R. A. Issa, *R. Castro-Raventós, *J. Choi, and J. Hammer (2003). “Inducting subcontractor process ontologies: Challenges, methods and illustrative results.” Proceedings of ASCE Construction Congress 7, Honolulu, HI, March 19-21, 2003, 8 pages.
Hammer, J., M. Schmalz, W. J. O’Brien, *S. Shekar, and *N. Haldevnekar (2002). “SEEKing knowledge in legacy information systems to support interoperability.” ECAI-02 Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability, Lyon, France, July 21-26, 2002, 6 pages.
Issa, R., I. Flood, and W. J. O’Brien (Eds.) (2003). 4D CAD and Visualization in Construction: Developments and Applications, A. A. Balkema, Lisse, The Netherlands, 287 pages.
O’Brien, W. J. (2003). “4D CAD and Dynamic Resource Planning for Specialist Contractors: Case Study and Issues.” In Issa, R.A., Flood, I., and O’Brien, W.J., (Eds.), 4D CAD and Visualization in Construction: Developments and Applications, A. A. Balkema, Lisse, The Netherlands, pp 101-124.
Griffis, F., D. Rubinson, W. O’Brien, S. Retailleau, and R. Zabilsky (1991). “Productivity Applications: 3D Models & Simulation.” Proceedings of Construction Congress ‘91. New York: ASCE, 1991, pp 247-252.
Griffis, F., W. O’Brien and P. Bronner. (1990). “Columbia Construction Research: The Applications of Three-Dimensional Computer Models in Construction.” Architectural & Engineering Systems, pp 18-23.
O’Brien, W. J., C. L. Menches, *J. Yi, and *S. Ali (2012). “Global Project Controls and Management Systems.” Research Report 244-11, 183 pages.
Butler, D., S. Goodman, R, Kurtz, W. J. O’Brien, and B. Strupp. (2012). “Project Controls and Management Systems: Forecasting – Promoting Leading Practice.” Implementation Resource 244-5. Construction Industry Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 39 pages.
Dove, R., W. J. O’Brien, *P. Singh, *P. Thompson, P. Van Nort, and *J. Yi. (2011). “Project Controls and Management Systems: Interface Management.” Implementation Resource 244-3. Construction Industry Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 60 pages.
Butler, D. D., C. Menches, W. J. O’Brien, P. Van Nort (2009). “Global Project Controls and Management Systems: Adapting Your PCMS Program for Success.” Implementation Resource 244-2, Construction Industry Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 48 pages.
Butler, D. D., C. Menches, W. J. O’Brien, P. Van Nort (2009). “Global Project Controls and Management Systems.” Research Summary 244-1, Construction Industry Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 24 pages.
*Siddiqui, M. K. and W. J. O’Brien. (2009). “A Formal Mapping Based Approach for Distributed Schedule Coordination on Projects.” Advanced Engineering Informatics, 23(1), pp. 104-115.
O’Brien, W. J., J. Hammer, *M. Siddiqui, and *O. Topsakal (2008). “Challenges, Approaches and Architecture for Distributed Process Integration in Heterogeneous Environments.” Advanced Engineering Informatics, 22(1), pp 28-44.
*Chen, H.-L., W. J. O’Brien, and Z. J. Herbsman (2005). “Assessing the Accuracy of Cash Flow Models: The Significance of Payment Conditions.” ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 131(6), pp 669-676.
*Peng, M., W. J. O’Brien, and J. T. O’Connor (2005). “Visualization of Highway Project Bids Using Treemaps.” Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Construction Engineering and Management (ICCEM2005), Seoul, Korea, October 16-19, 2005, pp 1036-1041.
*Shen, Z., R. R. A. Issa, and W. J. O’Brien (2003). “A model for integrating construction design and schedule data.” Proceedings of the Fourth Joint International Symposium on Information Technology in Civil Engineering, Nashville, TN, November 15-16, 2003, 13 pages.
O’Brien, W. J. and M. A. Fischer (2000). “Importance of Capacity Constraints to Construction Cost and Schedule.” ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 126(5), pp 366-373.