Accurate software cost estimation is a vital task that affects the firm's software investment decisions before committing required resources to that project or bidding for a contract. This study proposes an improved Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) approach integrated with multi-agent technology to retrieve similar projects from multi-organizational distributed datasets. The study explores the possib...

one of the most effective tools for decline cost and time, quality improvement and consequently project performance enhancement especially in construction projects, is value engineering. there are linguistic judgments in many cases of value engineering studies in construction projects such as interior design, mechanical installations design, and etc. therefore multiple attribute decision-making...

In the area of software engineering a critical task is to accurately estimate the overall project costs for the completion of a new software project and efficiently allocate the resources throughout the project schedule. The numerous software cost estimation approaches proposed are closely related to cost modeling and recognize the increasing need for successful project management, planning and...

1.NBSTRACT An analysis of the main contributors to the quality aidcost of complex board manufacturing is presented. Manufacturing data from three boards built at Hewlett-Packard and simulation models are used to derive the sensitivity of quality and cost versus ,Surface Mount Technology (SMT) solder defect rate, component functional defect rate and test coverage. A new Yield model which account...

Project Management process plays a significant role in effective development of software projects. Key challenges in the project management process are the estimation of time, cost, defect count, and subsequently selection of apt developers. Therefore precise estimation of above stated factors decides the success level of a project. This paper provides an empirical study of several projects dev...

Manufacturing evaluation is performed with heuristics that are developed internally by the manufacturing experts in the company. Many of the existing manufacturing evaluation systems rely on highly specialized knowledge, extensive databases, and require a significant amount of time and cost that make these tools in general unavailable early in design and to small manufacturers who do not have t...

Global Software Development, also known as Distributed Software Development, is originally an outsourcing technique in which the development teams hailing from diverse cultural backgrounds and located at distant remote locations participate in the software development efforts and provide their services through a tightly coupled computer networks like Internet. Accurate software cost and effort ...

The National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative's (NEMI) plug and play Factory Project addressed the issues of how to quickly integrate new pieces of electronics assembly equipment into a shop floor line management system and how to manage the vast amounts of data available in today's electronics manufacturing environment. The necessary technical infrastructure was designed, developed, and de...

We can say a software project is successful when it is delivered on time, within the budget and maintaining the required quality. However, nowadays software cost estimation is a critical issue for the advance software industry. As the modern software’s behaves dynamically so estimation of the effort and cost is significantly difficult. Since last 30 years, more than 20 models are already develo...

Design and manufacturing technology of high pressure multistage pumps which are commonly utilized in oil and gas industries, used to be imported from foreign companies. Due to international sanctions against I. R. Iran, it started to be designed and launched domestically. Nowadays all production lines including design, manufacturing and testing of these pumps have been performed by Iranian expe...