Risk Assessment Tool (RAT) is an expert system that assesses, monitors, and gives preliminary treatments automatically based on the project plan. In this paper, a review was taken out for the current project time management risk assessment tools for SME software development projects, analyze risk assessment parameters, conditions, scenarios, and finally propose risk assessment tool (RAT) model ...

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a cornerstone of modern molecular biology and represents a unique means of investigating the patterns of conservation and diversity in complex biological systems. Many different algorithms have been developed to construct MSAs, but previous studies have shown that no single aligner consistently outperforms the rest. This has led to the development of a numbe...

Decision making based on the comparison of multiple criteria of two or more alternatives, is the subject of intensive research. In many decision making situations, a single criterion consists of more than one piece of information, and therefore might be regarded as a lump of aggregated information. This paper proposes a general method for aggregating information. To accomplish information aggre...

The reliability of the results obtained from instruments calibration is a problem frequently found in the calibration laboratories, especially when these instruments are mechanical and do not have a built-in communication interface. In this case, the time consuming is increased significantly and the calibration may be subject to human error. In this paper, a machine vision based system for auto...

Functional annotation is the process that assigns a biological functionality to a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence. It requires searching in huge data sets for candidates, and inferring the most appropriate features based on the information found and expert knowledge. When humans perform most of these tasks, results are of a high quality, but there is a bottleneck in processing; when expert...

In many emergency situations, human operators are required to derive countermeasures based on contingency rules whilst under time pressure. In order to contribute to the human success in playing such a role, the present study intends to examine the eŒectiveness of using expert systems to train for the time-constrained decision domain. Emergency management of chemical spills was selected to exem...

Security assessments for communication networks play an important risk management role because they allow risks to be prioritized for mitigation or risk acceptance. Qualitative risk assessments that involve intangible elements require the subjective judgment of the security analyst completing the risk assessment and this may lead to low confidence in the results due to a perception that evaluat...