The rapid growth in demand on information systems and the uncertainties associated with the development process for such systems has revealed problems such as inappropriate human resource management, poor quality, and serious delay. Traditional project management approaches emphasize the importance of scheduling, while careful allocation of resources across projects is critical and has a direct...

As a complex method for manufacturing and development, concurrent engineering has been studied and implemented extensively in the manufacturing industry to speed up production schedules and to reduce costs. One of the tools used in concurrent engineering is computer-aided design or CAD in short. CAD applications in multifunctional knowledge distribution refer to the use of CAD to provide inform...

one of the most effective tools for decline cost and time, quality improvement and consequently project performance enhancement especially in construction projects, is value engineering. there are linguistic judgments in many cases of value engineering studies in construction projects such as interior design, mechanical installations design, and etc. therefore multiple attribute decision-making...

In this paper, a number of problems of conventional automated software engineering support environments are described. These problems are related to the functional approach these environments take, the lack of initiative these systems exhibit and the causal connection gap between design information and the operational entity. As an alternative, we suggest an autonomous agent approach. Each arti...

Parallel programming is widely acknowledged to be more diicult than sequential programming. One reason for this is that parallel programming systems are more diicult to use than their sequential counterparts. In particular, few parallel programming systems can support the software engineering requirements of large applications. We intend to assess and compare the usability of a variety of paral...

Information technology can only support concurrent engineering if engineering works are well understood. The prevailing approach to do this is process modeling. We found, however, that traditional process modeling techniques such as IDEF0 obscure some aspects of human works, such as communication, collaboration, coordination, client-worker relations and client satisfaction and suggest an ideali...