The Project Life Cycle refers to a logical sequence of activities to accomplish the project’s goals or objectives. Regardless of scope or complexity, any project goes through a series of stages during its life. Project development has increased importance in business due to stiff competition and a fast changing business environment. Its cycle time is critical as it decides the success of a busi...

Using a simulator to design and evaluate intelligent agents in realistic environments places enormous demands on a simulation tool: everything from supporting multiple agents and their interactions, to providing detailed control over trials in an environment, to accurate perception within computational bounds. While the computationally intensive nature of this process is the most obvious reason...

This paper addresses a multi-objective order scheduling problem in production planning under a complicated production environment with the consideration of multiple plants, multiple production departments and multiple production processes. A Pareto optimization model, combining a NSGA-II-based optimization process with an effective production process simulator, is developed to handle this probl...

Staff attrition is a problem often faced by software development organizations. How can a manager plan for the risk of losses due to attrition? Can policies for this purpose be formulated to address his/her specific organization and project? Proposed was to use a software development process simulator tuned to the specific organization, for running "what-if" scenarios for assessing the effects ...

In this paper, we consider the edge detection problem using an intelligent approach. We use a multilayer neural network based on multi-valued neurons (MLMVN) as an intelligent edge enhancer. MLMVN is a complex-valued neural network and it has many advantages over classical neural networks. It significantly outperforms a classical multilayer feedforward neural network in terms of learning speed,...

We developed an event-driven simulator of the Kanban process a WIP limited pull system visualized by the Kanban board. WIP(work in process) represent the capacity in the activity to perform features simoultaneously. The simulator is fully object-oriented, and its design model reflects the objects of the Lean software development domain. We used this simulator to assess comparatively WIP-limited...

We investigate a two-dimensional network simulator that model the dynamics of two-phase immiscible bulk flow where film flow can be neglected. We present a method for simulating the detailed dynamical process where the two phases are allowed to break up into bubbles and bubbles are allowed to merge together. The notions of drainage and imbibition are not adequate to describe this process since ...

A geothermal power plant multiple simulator for operators training is presented. The simulator is designed to be installed in a wireless local area network and has a capacity to train one to six operators simultaneously, each one with an independent simulation session. The sessions must be supervised only by one instructor. The main parts of this multiple simulator are: instructor and operator’...

Process simulators are becoming basic tools in chemical engineering programs. Senior-level design projects typically involve the use of either a commercial simulator or an academic simulator such as ASPENPLUS, ChemCAD, ChemShare, FLOWTRAN, HYSYS, and ProII w/PROVISION. Many design textbooks now include exercises specifically prepared for a particular simulator. For example, the text by Seider, ...

This paper presents ongoing research on the application of PSF in the field of software engineering and reengineering. We build a new implementation for the simulator of the PSF Toolkit starting from the specification in PSF of the architecture of a simple simulator and extend it with features to obtain the architecture of a full simulator. We apply refining and constraining techniques on the s...