We provide new yield-aware mask strategies to mitigate emerging variability and defectivity challenges. To address variability, we analyze critical dimension variability with respect to reticle size and its impact on parametric yield. With a cost model that incorporates mask, wafer, and processing cost, considering throughput, yield, and manufacturing volume, we assess various reticle strategie...

In every tunnel boring machine (TBM) tunneling project, there is an initial low production phase so-called the Learning Phase Period (LPP), in which low utilization is experienced and the operational parameters are adjusted to match the working conditions. LPP can be crucial in scheduling and evaluating the final project time and cost, especially for short tunnels for which it may constitute a ...

ost estimation for an engineering project traditionally involves development of an “engineer’s estimate” of the project cost to which contingency is added to develop the “total project cost.” Contingency is used to reflect the fact that regardless of the diligence and competence of the estimator, there is uncertainty in the final cost of the project. Material costs change over time, markups and...

Software project effort estimation requires high accuracy, but accurate estimations are difficult to achieve. Increasingly, data mining is used to improve an organization’s software process quality, e.g. the accuracy of effort estimations. Data is collected from projects, and data miners are used to discover beneficial knowledge. This paper reports a data mining experiment in which we examined ...

Abstract Within product development, manufacturing cost estimation provides a sound basis for design and management decisions. This secures companies profitability, but the effort is high deep knowledge at interface of design, costs needed. These issues can be eased with automation enabled by semantic technologies. Therefore, authors developed method reference-based created prototype. research ...

The major aim of this research is benchmarking Honeywell Federal Manufacturing &Technologies projects using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique and to compare the results with that of published recently in Qing Cao, James J. Hoffman Qing Cao, James J. Hoffman. (2011). A case study approach for developing a project performance evaluation system. International Journal of Project Managem...

Software project estimation for such items as Size, Effort, Cost, Delivery time, Reliability and Risk, is a fundamental skill for software engineers. In order to improve estimation, there is a need for measurement of the measurements, that is, a meta-metric for the process. This paper compares three existing metrics and provides an example of conversions between them. It then extends one (DeMar...

When characterizing the coding activity of developers on a software project, a common technique is to study the transactions in the versioning system. However, not all transactions are equal, neither represent the same kind (both in quality and quantity) of activity. In this paper, a methodology for classifying the interactions of developers with versioning systems is proposed, based on the ana...

One of important aspects of software projects is estimating the cost and time required to develop projects. Nowadays, this issue has become one of the key concerns of project managers. Accurate estimation of essential effort to produce and develop software is heavily effective on success or failure of software projects and it is highly regarded as a vital factor. Failure to achieve convincing a...