Managing software changes and achieving an effective change acceptance decision is one of the crucial factors in ensuring the software project success. Accepting too many changes will cause expense and delay and rejecting the changes may cause customer dissatisfaction. One of the inputs that help in achieving an effective change acceptance decision is by having reliable estimation on the change...

Software cost and effort estimation is the most vulnerable issue in software development technology. Due continuous changing resources and customer involvements, software effort estimation has become more challenging issue in software management. To accurately estimate software cost and effort is difficult for both developers as well as customers. It has become very difficult to establish relat...

The project client, for this case study, would like to move toward the manufacturing strategy of Continuous Flow Manufacturing. This philosophy concentrates on maximizing throughput while simultaneously reducing inventory and operating expense. The initial phase of the project addressed the documentation of the production process at the company, and identification of process constraints. A cons...

Long -term Abstract Due to high cost of capaciiy investmen!, many semiconductor manufacturing companies have exhibited the need to pursuit innovative capacicv plans and planning methods. In this paper. a case study of option-based capaciry planning is presented. Three issues ore addressed: estimation of prodnction cost parameters, valuation of capaciiy, and analysis design . I f is shown that t...

Title of Thesis: Control of Construction Costs During Construction David H. Foo, Master of Science in Management Engineering, 1981 Thesis directed by: Dr. John M. Ciborski, Special Lecturer The construction of a major project requires a vast amount of time, money, material and human resources. Proper coordination of these elements into an array of activities is crutial to the success of the pro...

“Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services” written by Michael L. Pinedo and published in the Springer Series in Operations Research is a recent book intended for a senior level or master level course on planning and scheduling either in an engineering or a business school. The book consists of four parts. Part I introduces the main features of scheduling models in manufacturing and...

The estimation of project completion time is to be repeated several times in the project planning phase to reach the optimal tradeoff between time, cost, and quality. Estimation procedures provide either an interval or a point estimate. The computational load of several estimation procedures is reviewed. A multiple polynomial regression model is provided for major interval estimation procedures...

The effort invested in a software project is one of the most challenging task and most analyzed variables in recent years in the process of project management. Software cost estimation predicts the amount of effort and development time required to build a software system. It is one of the most critical tasks and it helps the software industries to effectively manage their software development p...

The growing instability of the business arena, advancements of the information and communication technologies, and increased competition determined manufacturing enterprises to change their way of pursuing business. As consequence, new paradigms for manufacturing engineering systems have emerged. The aim of this article is to present preliminary results of an inter-disciplinary (on-going) resea...