Parametric cost estimating, when properly used, is a very powerful and cost effective technique. Unfortunately, this technique is often misunderstood and rejected by many potential users for whom it could be a beneficial tool. The development of an agreement on how to use it and how to recognise its limitations is a major benefit to the cost estimating community.
From Product Description to Cost: A Practical Approach
- presents different ways of parametrically forecasting costs, and the advantages and disadvantages of these methods by using real examples...
Parametric cost estimating, when properly used, is a very powerful and cost effective technique. Unfortunately, this technique is often misundersto...
Decision-making Support Systems (DMSS) are computer-based systems that support individual or organisational decision-making processes. Recent advances in information technology and artificial intelligence are enhancing these systems and giving rise to intelligent-DMSS.
Intelligent Decision-making Support Systems: Foundations, Applications and Challenges is the first book to provide integrated coverage of the technical aspects of intelligent Decision-Making Support Systems together with discussion of their application and evaluation in organisational structures.
The...
Decision-making Support Systems (DMSS) are computer-based systems that support individual or organisational decision-making processes. Recent advan...
This is the first book to provide a step-by-step guide to the methods and practical aspects of acquiring, modelling, storing and sharing knowledge. The reader is led through 47 steps from the inception of a project to its conclusion. Each is described in terms of reasons, required resources, activities, and solutions to common problems. In addition, each step has a checklist which tracks the key items that should be achieved.
This is the first book to provide a step-by-step guide to the methods and practical aspects of acquiring, modelling, storing and sharing knowledge....
In the early years of the 21st Century, as a result of many changes, it has become possible for the first time for tens of thousands of companies to offer manufactured products to customers across six continents. For many of these "global products," there are potentially more than a billion customers. In 2007, Wall Street hit new highs as the enormous opportunity for increased sales and profits became clear. However the new environment is not easy to manage and the risks are high.
Meeting the various requirements of customers from a range of countries, choosing the most suitable...
In the early years of the 21st Century, as a result of many changes, it has become possible for the first time for tens of thousands of companies t...
This book presents the results of extensive research in computer-supported decision processes in engineering, carried out over many years by the author and his coll- orators. The author has cooperated with designers in Poland and in Germany. Very often there was university-industry cooperation for the building of speci?c so- ware for certain engineering tasks. The majority of the concepts, for example "the designer's personal assistant"and the decomposition and coordination of multicriteria decision problems, evolved through cooperation with designers in this ?eld. The author, while working...
This book presents the results of extensive research in computer-supported decision processes in engineering, carried out over many years by the autho...
Parametric cost estimating, when properly used, is a very powerful and cost effective technique. Unfortunately, this technique is often misunderstood and rejected by many potential users for whom it could be a beneficial tool. The development of an agreement on how to use it and how to recognise its limitations is a major benefit to the cost estimating community.
From Product Description to Cost: A Practical Approach
- presents different ways of parametrically forecasting costs, and the advantages and disadvantages of these methods by using real examples...
Parametric cost estimating, when properly used, is a very powerful and cost effective technique. Unfortunately, this technique is often misundersto...
The aim of this book is to help enable the use of the technique of simulation modelling in the organisation. There is an emphasis in the book on the implementation of the technique in organisations, rather than a detailed treatment of the mechanics of simulation software execution or the statistical analysis undertaken during a study. The focus in this text is on recent changes in the way simulation is used which have led to its wider use and provide the potential for a continued growth in use. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the technique and gives details of where the technique can be...
The aim of this book is to help enable the use of the technique of simulation modelling in the organisation. There is an emphasis in the book on the i...
Network models are critical tools in business, management, science and industry. "Network Models and Optimization" presents an insightful, comprehensive, and up-to-date treatment of multiple objective genetic algorithms to network optimization problems in many disciplines, such as engineering, computer science, operations research, transportation, telecommunication, and manufacturing. The book extensively covers algorithms and applications, including shortest path problems, minimum cost flow problems, maximum flow problems, minimum spanning tree problems, traveling salesman and postman...
Network models are critical tools in business, management, science and industry. "Network Models and Optimization" presents an insightful, comprehe...
This book is a sequel to The Practice of Machine Design, and The Practice of Machine Design, Book 3 - Learning from Failure. It deals with what happens inside the human mind during such activities as design and production, and how we reach decisions. Unlike other regular machine design textbooks or handbooks that describe how to accomplish good designs, the present volume explains what the designer thinks when making design decisions. A design starts with a vague concept and gradually takes shapes as it proceeds, and during this process the mind extracts elements and makes selections and...
This book is a sequel to The Practice of Machine Design, and The Practice of Machine Design, Book 3 - Learning from Failure. It deals with what happen...
In recent years, the supply chain has become a key element to the survival and prosperity of organisations in different industry sectors. Organisations dealing in dynamic business environments demand supply chains that support the satisfaction of customer needs. The principles of lean thinking that once permeated standalone organisations have now been transferred to the supply chain, making imperative the development of innovative approaches to supply chain management.
Customer-driven Supply Chains: Strategies for Lean and Agile Supply Chain Design reviews the...
In recent years, the supply chain has become a key element to the survival and prosperity of organisations in different industry sectors. Organisat...
