leave : provided that, if on the first occasion on which he takes leave after January 1st, 1919, he combines with other leave privilege leave to a less amount than stands to his credit, the balance of the privilege leave at his credit will lapse, and he will not be entitled to enjoy it on a subsequent occasion. The total amount of privilege leave to be enjoyed under this clause on the second oc...

s information technology provides industry with the means to identify new product and service opportunities, the increasing demand for these products and services places new demands on information technology. This cycle has created unprecedented requirements for integrated enterprise systems and applications, which are capable of modeling rapid changes in business policies, workflow and informa...

Given two strings, text t of length n, and pattern p = p1 : : : pk of length k, and given a natural number w, the subsequence matching problem consists in nding the number of size w windows of text t which contain pattern p as a subsequence, i.e. the letters p1 ; : : : ; pk occur in the window, in the same order as in p, but not necessarily consecutively (they may be interleaved with other lett...

Fagan inspections are a structured review of development documents that consists of individual preparation, a meeting and rework by the author of the document. The meeting is used to log the defects found in preparation and to search for more defects. The effectiveness and eficiency of the meeting is typically low as compared to that of the preparation. This paper describes the use of an EMS to...

Reworking in developing software exists widely in IT project management. But the current estimating methods on project duration cannot deal well with this problem. In this paper, some key concepts, such as adjusted activity, adjusted GERT network, expected project duration, expected critical path, are firstly defined. Then authors study estimating method on project duration for different rework...

The objective of this article is to analyze the effect of both target market and product complexity on the production activities in an industrial goods company of Brazil. Nine projects developed and manufactured by the company were monitored and their pertaining data collected, according to the planning of a factorial experiment involving two independent variables (target market and product com...