Scheduling term-end exams (TEE ) at the United States Military Academy in West Point is unlike any other exam timetabling problem we know of. Exam timetabling normally produces a con‡ict-free timetable covering a reasonably long exam period, where every exam is scheduled exactly once for all the students enrolled in the corresponding class. The situation is quite di¤erent at West Point. There a...

Widely-used operating systems provide inadequate support for large-scale Internet server applications. Their algorithms and interfaces fail to eeciently support either event-driven or multi-threaded servers. They provide poor control over the scheduling and management of machine resources, making it diicult to provide robust and controlled service. We propose new UNIX interfaces to improve scal...

Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is nowadays widely used to support decision makers in system analysis and improvement. However, the use of simulation for improving stochastic logistic processes is not common among healthcare providers. The process of improving healthcare systems involves the necessity to deal with trade-off optimal solutions that take into consideration a multiple number of var...

chooshing the knowledge management strategy is affected by different organizational factors like business strategy, organizational structure, organizational culture, information technology strategy, human resource management, and dynamics of knowledge. it is difficult for strategists to consider all these factors in choosing appropriate km strategy. in this research after presenting a six step ...

Estimating the costs of software development is one of the most important activities in software project management. Inaccuracies in such estimates may cause irreparable loss. A low estimate of the cost of projects will result in failure on delivery on time and indicates the inefficiency of the software development team. On the other hand, high estimates of resources and costs for a project wil...

We consider an extension of the classical resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP), which covers discrete resource-resource and time-resource tradeo s. As a result a project scheduler is permitted to identify several alternatives or modes of accomplishment for each activity of the project. The solution procedure we present is a considerable generalization of the branch-and-bound ...

Optimizing system resource utilization is a key design objective for system engineers in communications, electronics, and other industries. System resources such as processors, memory, or bandwidth on a communication bus are often shared by various components in the system. To understand the utilization of a shared resource, system engineers must do two things: identify constraints on the resou...

Project management is an important factor to accomplish the decision to implement large-scale software systems (LSS) in a successful manner. The effective project management comes into play to plan, coordinate and control such a complex project. Project management factor has been argued as one of the important Critical Success Factor (CSF), which need to be measured and monitored carefully duri...

Healthcare systems, as one of the key public infrastructures, have arisen more concerns to the society after September 11. This paper presents a preliminary study of healthcare system preparedness within a county level if a bioterrorist attack occurs. Discrete event simulation model was developed to evaluate the staff utilization and resource capability for such hypothetical bioterrorist attack...