One of the greatest challenges to integrating renewable energy resources into power operations is the variability in electricity output from these resources. The electricity system works essentially as a supply chain with a nearly zero tolerance for delay and storage resources that remain very limited despite rapid growth. Yet, because no consistent methodology exists to quantify the capacity c...

New methods and techniques are needed to reduce the integration and test effort (lead time, costs, resources) in the development of high-tech multi-disciplinary systems. To facilitate this effort reduction, a method called model-based integration and testing is being developed. The method allows to integrate formal and executable models of system components that are not yet physically realized ...

If marriage markets were only subject to the influences of numerical supply and demand, one would expect that the scarcer sex in a population would have a greater proportion married. Previous research has demonstrated that when males are scarce, they are actually less likely to be married, presumably because their market scarcity enhances their short term mating success and decreases incentives...

Accurate cost estimation helps to complete project within time and budget. Many estimation models have been proposed over the last 30 years. This paper provides a detail overview of existing software cost estimation models and techniques. Cost estimation models are basically of two types: algorithmic and non-algorithmic. It also includes the recent developed techniques for software cost estimat...