Feature-Based and Process-Based Manufacturing Cost Estimation

A generic feature-driven activity-based cost estimation process

Understanding how the building design influences construction costs is a challenging task for estimators. Estimators must recognize the design conditions that affect construction costs and customize the cost estimate accordingly. Estimators have different preferences for how and when to adjust a project’s activities, resources, and resource productivity rates that form the basis of a cost estim...

Concurrent Process Tolerancing Based on Manufacturing Cost And Quality Loss

Fast Business Process Similarity Search with Feature-Based Similarity Estimation

Nowadays, business process management plays an important role in the management of organizations. More and more organizations describe their operations as business processes, and the intraand interorganizational interactions between operations as services. It is common for organizations to have collections of hundreds or even thousands of business processes. Consequently, techniques are require...

A Novel ICA-based Estimator for Software Cost Estimation

One of the most important and valuable goal of software development life cycle is software cost estimation or SCE. During the recent years, SCE has attracted the attention of researchers due to huge amount of software project requests. There have been proposed so many models using heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms to do machine learning process for SCE. COCOMO81 is one of the most popular...

Feature-Based Pose Estimation

In this chapter we review challenges and methodology for feature-based predictive tri-dimensional human pose reconstruction, based on image and video data. We argue that reliable 3d human pose prediction can be achieved through an alliance between image descriptors that encode multiple levels of selectivity and invariance and models that are capable to represent multiple structured solutions. F...