109301-4747 IJCEE-IJENS © February 2010 IJENS I J E N S  Abstract— The Nigerian construction industry produces nearly 70% of the nation’s fixed capital formation yet its performance within the economy has been, and continues to be, very poor. For example, the Nigerian construction industry’s contribution to employment has remained consistently at 1.0% over the last decade against the World Ban...

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Software quality models provide a framework to measure and evaluate software quality of software systems. They are the basis upon which classify requirements and may be eventually used to guide the quantification of these requirements, especially non-functional requirements. Lots of approaches for building quality models have been proposed in the last decades, but still their reuse along differ...

We describe efficient PRAM algorithms for constructing unbalanced quadtrees, balanced quadtrees, and quadtree-based finite element meshes. Our algorithms take time O(logn) for point set input and O(logn log k) time for planar straight-line graphs, using O(n+k/ logn) processors, where n measures input size and k output size.

The growing competitions among companies intensified by the rapid changes in business environments are forcing them to adopt a new managerial paradigm. The traditional production-oriented management focusing on higher productivity has transformed into the customer-oriented management aiming at achieving customer satisfaction. Under these circumstances, quality management is one of the critical ...

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...

This paper tries to analyze common bridge construction defects, classify them into appropriate groups, and redefine them as a precautionary measure and means to improve quality in bridge construction. For this purpose, data on bridge construction since January 2007 were obtained from the evaluation report of the Public Construction Committee (PCC) of Taiwan. Bridge construction defects were cla...