In China, the expressways have been built a lot over past decade. The construction of expressway suffers from usual cost overrun. There are many factors different stakeholders influencing expressways, and it is difficult to control all them. Therefore, necessary identify key causing overrun take corresponding measures. this article, decision-making trial evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL), interpr...

The Hierarchical Scheduling Framework (HSF) has been introduced as a design-time framework to enable compositional schedulability analysis of embedded software systems with real-time properties. In this paper a software system consists of a number of semi-independent components called subsystems. Subsystems are developed independently and later integrated to form a system. To support this desig...

The cost overrun phenomenon on projects worldwide creates a major source of risk that warrants investigation. prevailing factor school thought provides strong empirical evidence critical factors contributing to overruns are both context-specific and project-specific. Although many studies have been conducted identifying causes overruns, very few investigated root causes. Additionally, limited b...