The proper allocation of financial and human resources to the various software development activities is a very important and critical task. To provide a realistic allocation, the project manager of a software development project should account for the various activities needed to ensure the completion of the project with the required quality and on-time and within-budget. In this paper, we pro...

OBJECTIVE This study presents data from a large-scale anthropometric study of U.S. truck drivers and the multivariate anthropometric models developed for the design of next-generation truck cabs. BACKGROUND Up-to-date anthropometric information of the U.S. truck driver population is needed for the design of safe and ergonomically efficient truck cabs. METHOD We collected 35 anthropometric d...

Task allocation is considered an important activity in software project management. However, the process of allocating tasks in agile software development teams has not received much attention in empirical research. Through a pilot study involving mixed open-ended and closed-ended interviews questions with 11 agile software practitioners working within a software development organization in Ind...

To examine the relationship of ramp design to truck accident rates, this paper presents an analysis of truck accidents in Washington State, plus a comparison to limited data from Colorado and California. We group freeway truck accidents by ramp type, accident type, and by four conflict areas of each merge or diverge ramp. We then compare these groups on the basis of truck accidents per location...

® The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors, who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the information presented herein. This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation University Transportation Centers Program, in the interest of information exchange. 16. Abstract This research presents a framework for incorporating the uni...

The three-dimensional model of 2500hp shale gas fracturing truck chassis frame was established and the natural frequency of the frame was obtained by modal analysis. Taking the displacement power spectrum density of a typical road as a random excitation, the random vibration response of frame was obtained by PSD module of finite element analysis software ANSYS. Based on the results of PSD analy...

Software watermarking involves embedding a unique identifier within a piece of software, to discourage software theft. The global revenue loss due to software piracy was estimated to be more than $50 billion in 2008. We survey the proposed register allocation based algorithms for software watermarking. This family of static watermarks are constraint-based and embed the watermark in a solution t...