Predicting the performance of the contractor is very important for both the contractor and the owner especially in highly competitive markets. The research presented in this paper offers a new model for contractor performance prediction. The model developed here utilizes qualitative as well as previously unconsidered quantitative measures about the contractors’ performance. The model makes use ...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2011.07.024 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +90 384 2281110; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected], nyalcin For manufacturing industries, financial performance evaluation is very important in a highly competitive environment. Therefore, an accurate and appropriate performance evaluation is critical. As financial performa...

The paper is concerned with the integration of building performance simulation within a collaborative/ multidisciplinary higher-education environment. The paper presents a semester-long setup in which a course attended by both architecture and engineering students and jointly taught by an architect and an engineer ultimately collaborate with an undergraduate architecture design studio on propos...

Airline companies today face formidable competitive pressure. To confront these problems and sustain competitive advantages, many companies have resorted to downsizing; this method, however, often results in the overworking of a small number of workers, especially in the case of aircraft maintenance staff, who are largely responsible for aviation safety. At the same time, during the staff annua...

Deploying a data warehouse system in a company is usually an expensive and risky investement. Constructing a data warehouse is a large project that can take very long time and a company cannot know in advance exactly what benefits a data warehouse will offer. Thus, in many cases, data warehousing projects have either been abandoned or been shown to be at least partial failures. We propose a new...

Manufacturing flow systems consisting of machines separated by buffers of finite capacity have been studied a lot in the literature because systems of this type are widely encountered in industry. The basic assumptions are that the processing time of each machine is deterministic and machines are subject to random failures. Failure and repair times of each machine are characterized by probabili...

Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is an advanced field of Operation Research; recently MCDM methods are efficient and common tools for performance evaluation in many areas such as finance and economy. The aim of this study is to show one of applications of mathematics in real word. This study with considering value based measures and accounting based measures simultaneously, provided a hybr...

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This paper presents quantified evidence on the influence of perceived performance quality of bus service on the perceptions of users. The study draws upon a data set of 512 questionnaires distributed across Belfast city, UK. A binary logistic regression and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) models are developed to quantify the impact of the relationships between the perceived performance quali...

With the rising popularity of e-commerce, more and more enterprises begin to construct and adapt to e-commerce system. It is far more than a simple computer system. Currently, many experts and organizations have attempted to evaluate the e-commerce performance theoretically. However, there is a white space in the theory, in particular the theoretical system of e-commerce performance evaluation....