Cost Allocation in Dam Removal Project

Managing Cost Overrun Risk in Project Funding Allocation

This paper discusses decision making of project funding allocation under uncertain project costs. Because project costs are uncertain and funding allocations may not necessarily match the costs required, each project is inherently subject to a cost overrun risk (COR). In this paper, a model is proposed in which project cost is treated as a factor with a probability density function. The decisio...

Cost Allocation

A Blueprint for DAM, MAM Cost Avoidance

Justifying investment in media asset management (MAM) and digital asset management (DAM) systems can be extremely difficult. The costs of these systems can be incredibly high, and IT departments must be able to justify the implementation and operating costs. Measuring return on investment (ROI) and cost avoidance is typically complicated as a result of implied soft costs and emerging technologi...

NTHU Rain Removal Project

Rain removal from a video is a challenging problem and has been recently investigated extensively. Nevertheless, the problem of rain removal from a single image was rarely studied in the literature, where no temporal information among successive images can be exploited, making the problem very challenging. In this paper, we propose a single-imagebased rain removal framework via properly formula...

Will Dam Removal Increase Nitrogen Flux to Estuaries?

To advance the science of dam removal, analyses of functions and benefits need to be linked to individual dam attributes and effects on downstream receiving waters. We examined 7550 dams in the New England (USA) region for possible tradeoffs associated with dam removal. Dam removal often generates improvements for safety or migratory fish passage but might increase nitrogen (N) flux and eutroph...