More and more, the accomplishment of important tasks and goals in organizations today is being achieved through the use of projects. The phrases we hear and read about daily at our work and in conversations with our colleagues, such as “management by projects” and “project management maturity,” reflect this increasing trend in our society. The explosively rapid adoption of such a powerful tool ...

We examine project selection decisions of firms constrained in the number of projects they can handle at once. A new project opportunity arises every period. Taking on a project requires a commitment of uncertain duration, preventing the firm from selecting another project in subsequent periods until the commitment ends. In our dynamic game, when two firms are free of commitment, they move sequ...

The project management architecture and mechanisms of distributed concurrent product design in a virtual enterprise are discussed. The process of project management and its functions are presented. First, aiming at the characteristics of distributed concurrent product design process, the architecture of project management of distributed cooperative product design in the virtual enterprise is pr...

Abstract Software testing guarantees the delivery of high-quality software products, and defect prediction (SDP) has become an important part testing. is divided into traditional just-in-time (JIT-SDP). However, most existing frameworks are relatively simplified, which makes it extremely difficult to provide developers with more detailed reference information. To improve effectiveness realize e...

a full investigation into the features extracted from voice signals of people with and without parkinson’s disease was performed. a total of 31 people with and without the disease participated in the data collection phase. their voice signals were recorded and processed. the relevant features were then extracted. a variety of feature selection methods have been utilized resulting in a good perf...

This paper presents an economic evaluation of gas to liquids (GTL) project using “South-Pars” gas field of Iran based on the latest actual performing GTL projects. Iran has the world’s largest reserves of natural gas and can satisfy the projected long-term market demand of GTL products which have lower pollution and higher quality than refinery products. The results of cost-benefit analysis sho...