Demand of software capabilities in both private and public organizations insists there is a need to provide trustworthy software. Risk management should be incorporated with the software development process for high quality deliverable. Time and cost consideration, different kind of factors consideration in risk management will provide efficient result. The growth of Internet poses different ki...

Outsourcing in software development projects has become a widely adopted utility model for dealing with competitive issues such as cost pressure and the lack of skilled human resources. Established outsourcing relationships in terms of captive offshoring centers or clientvendor partnerships are prone to fail due to the lack of qualified outsourcing decisions for the allocation of software compo...

In this study, we consider the application of a simulated annealing (SA) heuristic to the truck and trailer routing problem with time windows (TTRPTW), an extension of the truck and trailer routing problem (TTRP). TTRP is a variant of the well-known well-studied vehicle routing problem (VRP). In TTRP, some customers can be serviced by either a complete vehicle (that is, a truck pulling a traile...

An algorithm for real time estimation of truck traffic in multi-lane freeway is proposed. The algorithm uses data from single loop detectors—the most widely installed surveillance technology for urban freeways in the US. The algorithm works for those freeway locations that have a truck-free lane, and exhibit high lane-to-lane speed correlation. These conditions are met by most urban freeway loc...

We consider software development as an economic activity, where goods and services can be modeled as a resource constrained task allocation problem. This paper introduces a market based mechanism to overcome task allocation issues in a software development process. It proposes a mechanism with a prescribed set of rules, where valuation is based on the behaviors of stakeholders such as biding fo...

Cloud computing is getting an enormous popularity for software companies as a way to save and optimize the cost of large hardware and software infrastructure organizations demand. Also, the cooperation between cloud layers constitutes a timely research challenge as allocation and optimization of (often virtualized) resources is many times done in isolation or with poor interaction. In this pape...

Comfort is an attribute that today’s drivers demand more and more. Seat is one of the important features of vehicle and there is the place where the professional driver spends most of their time. According to ‘European Union Legislation for Drivers and Promote’, the weekly driving time for truck drivers shall not exceed 56 hours. Assuming eight week vacation and one more for holiday, the truck ...

Driver fatigue is an important safety issue for long-haul truck drivers. To provide an efficient means of obtaining sleep, long-haul truck drivers often use tractors equipped with sleeper berth units. Depending on the type of cargo and distances traveled, long-haul truck drivers either drive in teams or alone as single drivers. Team drivers, therefore, typically sleep in a moving truck whereas ...

Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and other state DOTs periodically carry out studies to assess how highway construction and maintenance (HCM) expenditures ought to be attributed to various vehicle classes. In parallel, each vehicle-class' contribution to revenues from fuel and excise taxes and permit fees are calculated. Although, the latter are determined by the state legislature...

This study aims to develop a planning model for the deployment of flood emergency response materials under stochastic demands. For ease modeling, deterministic demand is first proposed, from which further extended. These models are used determine allocation transport truck routes and distribution stockpiled sites. The formulated as multiple integer network flow problems with special side constr...