In this short communication, we introduce iSOCO as a leading Spanish company that applies Agent Based technology and AI methods to help companies to streamline their business processes within the scope of the digital economy. We also describe two main iSOCO service offerings: aggregation and e-sourcing and discuss how Planning & Scheduling methodologies can be applied to improve performance and...

Testing is one of the most important things to accomplish when software is developed. Without testing end users would have to deal with faulty programs far more often. The question remains what is so difficult or special about testing software that even great companies with large dedicated testing departments are unable to create reliable software products. This bachelor thesis will introduce a...

Project management is a well-known management technique that has gained success because it encourages better organization and good engineering practice. This technique is also being used at CERN where projects are managed by engineers. They usually find themselves not at ease with a methodology and a jargon that are typical of an economical context. This paper presents a different approach to t...

recruitment of human resources has a critical importance as the most important and essential asset of a knowledge-based organization. the process of resourcing and recruitment has to be compatible with the characteristics of a knowledge-based organization and conditions of competitive markets in this regard. in this paper, which is the result of an applied developmental study, the process of re...

Estimating the costs of software development is one of the most important activities in software project management. Inaccuracies in such estimates may cause irreparable loss. A low estimate of the cost of projects will result in failure on delivery on time and indicates the inefficiency of the software development team. On the other hand, high estimates of resources and costs for a project wil...

Project-based learning has been illustrated to be an effective means of teaching students many of the "real-world" issues that arise during the course of engineering projects. However, project-based learning tends to have a product-centric focus. This paper describes an experimental run of a project-based learning program with a researchoriented focus, named "X-PBL." In this project, four colle...

The acceptance of the right project which leads to the realization of the set objectives is one of the most important issues in project-oriented companies. Therefore, corporate managers prefer to work on those projects which ensures the achievement of goals such as increasing financial profits or being the top brands in their rivals market. The present  research aimed at introducing  a systemat...

The aim of a multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem (MRCPSP) is to assign resource(s) with the restricted capacity to an execution mode of activities by considering relationship constraints, to achieve pre-determined objective(s). These goals vary with managers or decision makers of any organization who should determine suitable objective(s) considering organization strategi...