the dynamic nature of projects and the fact that they are carried out in changing environments, justify the need for their periodic monitoring and control. collection of information about the performance of projects at control points costs money. the corrective actions that may need to be taken to bring the project in line with the plan also costs money. on the other hand, penalties are usually...

There are many characteristics in hightechnology project investment, such as needing a lot of capital, having so many unsure factors and so on. There are full of risks in the investment process. Some corporations were disastrous in investment because of ignoring the risk evaluation or using the inapposite valuation methods. So it is necessary to use a scientific evaluation method in the investm...

The Shiraz project included an evaluation component: two ‘glass-box’ evaluations have been performed during the project as well as a black-box evaluation at the end of the project. The evaluations were based on the use of a bilingual tagged test corpus of 3000 sentences. Evaluation tools were developed in order to automate the evaluation process. The glass-box evaluations included the evaluatio...