Nowadays, effort estimation in software projects is turned to one of the key concerns for project managers. In fact, accurately estimating of essential effort to produce and improve a software product is effective in software projects success or fail, which is considered as a vital factor. Lack of access to satisfying accuracy and little flexibility in existing estimation models have attracted ...

Software Cost Estimation is the challenging factor in project management. Accurate cost estimation helps to complete project with in time and budget. Due to this behavior of the project it is considered as a risky project .Under these conditions risk management is mandatory. Large numbers of estimation models have been proposed over the last 30 years. Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) is one of ...

A new low cost thin film substrate technology was developed within the EU research project LAP. The project’s substrate cost target of 1 US$/inch shall be obtained by using low cost materials and large area panel processing (LAP). This paper presents tests and measurements showing the process accuracy and the geometric variations resulting from low cost manufacturing. The second part is focusin...

In the software development process, effort distribution based on phase is an important but often a neglected aspect of software cost estimation. Insufficient phase effort distribution study is the primary reason of poor software effort estimation. This paper provides the results of an empirical study on phase effort distribution based on 2956 projects. The software development process is divid...

The concept of Rapid Manufacturing (RM) is emerging from the so-called Rapid Prototyping technologies where additive rather than subtractive techniques will be used to make parts or even completed assemblies. As no tooling is required, one of the main benefits of RM will be the ability to make cost-effective custom products that could all be entirely individualised to a particular consumer or u...

uniaxial compressive strength (ucs) is one of the most significant factors on the stability of underground excavation projects. most of the time, this factor can be obtained by exploratory boreholes evaluation. due to the large distance between exploratory boreholes in the majority of geotechnical projects, the application of geostatistical methods has increased as an estimator of rock mass pro...

On time and within budget software project development represents a challenge for software project managers. Software management activities include but are not limited to: estimation of project cost, development of schedules and budgets, meeting user requirements and complying with standards. Recruiting development team members is a sophisticated problem for a software project manager. Since th...