In a city like Dubai, where one of the biggest and fastest growing construction markets in the world exists, the need to estimate the cost of quality in the construction projects becomes a vital task. This research used the prevention–appraisal–failure (PAF) model to evaluate the cost of quality (CoQ) and to determine its optimum value – the level of quality that minimizes the total CoQ – for t...

The software cost estimation aims to predict the most realistic effort that is required to finish a software project and so it is critical to the success of a software project management. A Software Cost Estimation affects nearly all management activities, including project bidding, resource allocation and project planning. It is affected by a number of factors, such as implementation efficienc...

Recent advances of hardware, software, and networks have made the management and security issues increasingly challenging in PC usage. Due to the tight coupling of hardware and software, each one of the hundreds or thousands of PCs connected in a networked environment has to be managed and administrated individually, leading to a high Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). We argue that a centralized s...

Scheduling in the factory setting ie compounded by computational comple:Aty and temporal uncertainty. Together, these two factors guarantee that the proceee of constructing an optimal schedule will be very costly and the chances of e:eecuting that schedule are vef11 slight. Temporal uncertainty in the e:eecution time environment can be oflset by 1everal methode: eliminate uncertainty by careful...

An important task of the asset management process is the evaluation of the long-range investment and resource planning of the assets of the complete power system and the life cycle cost assessment of different type of substations. The calculation of the long-range investment and resource planning can be performed by using dynamic asset simulation tools, which represent the statistical behavior ...

This paper presents a new multi-objective Time-Cost Trade-Off (TCTO) model for Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) networks. The presented model helps crashing a project with little, or no, additional cost. As combinatorial optimization problems' finding optimal decisions are difficult and is time consuming; considering the number of possible permutations involved for TCTO optimization, th...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glory mission, a remote sensing Earth-orbiting observatory, which was scheduled for launch in June of 2009 but now delayed for October of 2010 [1], as part of the A-train constellation (705 km altitude, 98.2 degrees inclination) Sun-Synchronous orbit. Glory mission objective is to increase our understanding of aerosols as agents of climat...

"What about the gym?" was the big question at this week's presidential press conference, as all other school matters were put aside. The crowd filed from the Patroon lounge to the Assembly Hall and finally to the Ballroom. The number of persons attending seemed to increase with every move and soon totaled 600 or 700. Dr. Clifton Thome, VicePresident of Student Affairs, held the press conference...