This paper describes work undertaken within the context of the P3 (Project and Process Prompter) Project which aims to develop the Prompter tool, a ‘decision-support tool to assist in the planning and managing of a software development project’. Prompter will have the ability to help software project managers to assimilate best practice and ‘know how’ in the field of software project management...

Various pests and diseases which are a disturbance in a forest plantation widely reported by many practitioners and researchers in forest management. Therefore, pests and diseases management activities become a very important part in the management of forest plantation. As an important stages in forest management, identification and recognition by an expert should be done quickly and accurately...

This paper describes work undertaken within the context of the P3 (Project and Process Prompter) Project which aims to develop the Prompter tool, a ‘decision-support tool to assist in the planning and managing of a software development project’. Prompter will have the ability to help software project managers to assimilate best practice and ‘know how’ in the field of software project management...

Growing complexity of diagnostic tests, combined with increased workload, stringent laboratory accreditation demands, continuous shortening of turn-around-time and budget restrictions have forced laboratories to automate most of their iterative tasks. Introduction of artificial intelligence by means of expert systems has gained an important place in this automation process. Different parts of c...

A software developer joining a large software project faces a steep learning curve before they are able to make real contributions. One challenge is finding the subject matter experts who can answer questions about a specific area of the software or to review changes. This is especially true of large projects with many modules and a large number of authors. In this paper, we describe a method t...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide project management (PM) students with an example of the Delphi research approach that was applied to a recent doctoral research thesis. The objective is to provide both a description of the approach and an explanation of how it was successfully applied so that researchers in PM may become more aware and expand their perceptions of methodological...

Today’s fast‐ pace manufacturing company environment requires that manufacturing decisions be made at the time when their impact will be the most relevant for the operations. The importance of the proper information and knowledge necessary for such decision can not be overstated. This paper discusses a procedure for the selection of process plans in real‐ time, during the manufacturing executio...

We are working on a common information model called UNIWBS which uses the work breakdown structure concept. UNIWBS is intended to support project information integration and project planning and control as well. By using the UNIWBS, we are also developing a conceptual knowledge-based expert system called DYNAPACK for generating planning, design, and construction work packages. DYNAPACK will be ...

The fifteen responses to my paper provide an exceptionally wide range of perspectives on the current state of research on fuzzy logic and its applications. Overall, I find that with most commentators I agree more than I disagree. In this response, I shall try to steer a middle course between simply repeating points of agreement and narrowly countering points of disagreement. My comments are div...

An expert system is a computer program that simulates the judgment and behavior of a human or an organization that has expert knowledge and experience in a particular field. Typically, such a system contains a knowledge base containing accumulated experience and a set of rules for applying the knowledge base to each particular situation that is described to the program. Sophisticated expert sys...