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As a recommended practice of AACE International, the Cost Estimate Classification System provides guidelines for applying the general principles of estimate classification to asset cost estimates. Asset cost estimates typically involve estimates for capital investment, and exclude operating and life-cycle evaluations. The Cost Estimate Classification System maps the phases and stages of asset c...

Let S be a generic submanifold of CN of real codimension m. In this work we continue the study, carried over by various authors, of the set of analytic discs attached to S. Moreover we look at the subspaces of CN obtained by evaluating at 0 and at 1, holomorphic maps which are the infinitesimal deformations of analytic discs attached to S.

We introduce an emotional agent model that shows how emotions affect an agent’s negotiation strategy. By adding emotions, we add the effects of these indirectly related features to the negotiation, features that are ignored in most models. Our new method, the PAD Emotional Negotiation Model, maps a nonemotional agent’s strategy during negotiation to the strategy used by an emotional agent. Our ...

We propose a class of query, called a derange query, that maps a function over a set of records and lazily aggregates the results. Derange queries defer work until it is either convenient or necessary, and, as a result, can reduce total I/O costs of the system. Derange queries operate on a view of the data that is consistent with the point in time that they are issued, regardless of when the co...