Projects are increasingly perceived as complex systems, yet little work has been done in developing methodologies that are theoretically grounded on complex systems theory. In response, this article argues the practical utility of a recently introduced model that draws on notions from Network Science (NS) – a prominent domain in the study of complexity. Its utility is exemplified in the context...

Agents me.y contract some of their tasks to other agents even when they do not share a common goal. An agent may try to contract some of the tasks that it cannot perform by itself, or that may be performed more efficiently by other agents. One self-motivated agent may convince another self-motivated agent to help it with its task, by promises of rewards, even if the agents are not assumed to be...

The first aim of this paper is to clarify the meaning of moral hazard in the context of construction procurement. Two important points are that typically there is a double moral hazard problem, as the client also can “misbehave” in a number of ways, and that both internal moral hazard (within the client and contractor organization) and external moral hazard (between client and contractor) must ...

3.3 Demonstration Plan Our demonstrations will consist of taking input images , and any available collateral data, and displaying the results of our APGD algorithms and to compare them, in some cases, with hand provided ground-truth results. We expect to demonstrate results on a variety of objects using a variety of imagery sources. The system will be designed to run autonomously but some human...

Conflicts are unavoidable in the projects; there is no project that free from conflicts. At same time, sub-contracting has been, and continues to be a very important aspect building construction industry, as standard procedure construction. Thus, study aims at analyzing conflicts between main contractor domestic sub-contractors projects Tanzania. Qualitative quantitative approaches were employe...

During the 1980s Sandia designed, developed, fabricated, tested, and delivered hundreds of thousands of radiation hardened integrated circuits (IC) for use in weapons and satellites. Initially, Sandia carried out all phases, design through delivery, so that development of next generation ICs and production of current generation circuits were carried out simultaneously. All this changed in the m...

Agile methods are gaining in popularity and have already become mainstream in software development due to their ability to produce new functionalities faster, and with higher customer satisfaction. Agile methods require different measurement practices compared to traditional ones. Effort estimation, progress monitoring, improving performance and quality are becoming important as valuable advice...