The planning competition has traditionally played an important role in motivating research and advances in Planning & Scheduling techniques. Despite its pivotal role in the planning community, some aspects of the competition have not been engineered yet. This is the case for the protocol for selecting benchmark instances. Benchmarks are of critical importance, since they can significantly affec...

Optimal project selection in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sectors is an important issue because of strategy-oriented environments. Many criteria should be considered to select the optimal project in the ICT industry. Moreover, the resources are limited, which this makes the ICT projects selection more complex. Besides, the uncertainty of selection and evaluation process increa...

Statistically resolving the underlying haplotype pair for a genotype measurement is an important intermediate step in gene mapping studies, and has received much attention recently. Consequently, a variety of methods for this problem have been developed. Different methods employ different statistical models, and thus implicitly encode different assumptions about the nature of the underlying hap...

Quality assessment of a construction project schedule can be a challenging task for project stakeholders. A little research work has addressed quality of schedules though a good project schedule can be considered as of the key factors of project success. The development of a reliable and easy to perform construction schedule quality assessment procedure seems to be a challenging task. Since Sch...

MOTIVATION Methods for detecting positive selection relied on finding evidence of long haplotypes to identify candidate regions under selection. However, these methods generally do not identify the length and form of the selected haplotype. RESULTS We present HapFinder, a method which can find the common longest haplotype under three different settings from a database, which is relevant in th...

The relationship between project selection and requirements analysis is important, yet has not received much attention. The decisions made during project selection directly affect and frame a project’s requirements analysis. In current practice, it is expected that requirements analysis begins after project selection has occurred. Yet, we know little empirically about the procedural relationshi...

This study presents the effects of project uncertainties on nonlinear time-cost tradeoff (TCT) profile of real life engineering projects by the fusion of fuzzy logic and artificial neural network (ANN) models with hybrid meta-heuristic (HMH) technique, abridged as Fuzzy-ANN-HMH. Nonlinear time-cost relationship of project activities is dealt with ANN models. ANN models are then integrated with ...

Selection of a project among a set of possible alternatives is a difficult task that the decision maker (DM) has to face. In this paper, by using a fuzzy TOPSIS technique we propose a new method for a project selection problem. After reviewing four common methods of comparing investment alternatives (net present value, rate of return, benefit cost analysis and payback period) we use them as cri...