The Organization Readiness of Engineering Project Management Based on Virtual Teams has been analyzed in an Iranian Engineering firm. Adapting and analyzing the latest readiness model, experts’ opinions were received by questionnaires and main criteria of the readiness have been identified. The considered readiness criteria are: Infrastructure, Deliverables (Drawings, Reports, Minutes of Meeti...

This paper will present the main topics of our team. The IVGI Team (French acronym for Virtual Engineering for Industrial Engineering) defines methods for the integration of several models in the system-design process. The focus is on the integration of cost factors and human factors based on a FBS-PPR model designed to capture enterprise knowledge. For these fields, cost, human and knowledge, ...

The four studies included in this paper examine the strength of the first impression in the estimation of work effort. The studied context is mainly one where the first impressions of software development effort is manipulated (biased) through comparisons with either much too low or too high reference effort values, e.g., by responding to a question from the client whether one believes that the...

this research aims at presenting a consolidated model of data envelopment analysis (dea) technique and value engineering to select the best manufacturing methods for gate valve covers and ranking the methods using topsis.to do so, efficiency evaluation indices were selected based on the value engineering approach and different manufacturing methods were evaluated using dea technique.finally, ef...

All large projects, from their inception to their completion, follow certain procedures, when undergoing evaluations of different designs, while at the same time, assuring project functionality at realistic costs which are acceptable to the owner. To keep project costs within certain parameters, there is a need to begin the project with a realistic budget and to have some reliable pricing data....

earned value management is a critical project managementmethodology that evaluates project performance from cost andschedule viewpoints. the novel theoretical framework presented in thispaper estimates future performance of project regarding the past relativeinformation. it benefits from fuzzy regression (fr) models in estimationprocess in order to deal with the vagueness and impreciseness ofre...

variace / covariance components of 227118 first lactaiom test-day milk yield records belonged to 31258 iranian holstein cows were estimated using nine random regression models. afterwards, different measures of persistency based on estimation breeding value were evaluated. three functions were used to adjust fixed lactation curve: ali and schaeffer (as), quadratic (le3) and cubic (le4) order of...