The Millennium Village Project (MVP) has come to embody hope for a new development path that might succeed where previous efforts have failed. A closer consideration of this project, however, suggests that this hope might be misplaced. Because of a general dearth of critical thought in key areas of project conceptualization, the MVP risks reproducing the problems of previous topdown, expert-dri...

Problem statement: Identifying critical tasks in a project network is easily done when task times are deterministic, but doing so under stochastic task times is problematic. The few methods that have been proposed contain serious drawbacks which lead to identifying critical tasks incorrectly, leaving project managers without the means to (1) identify and rank the most probable sources of projec...

for the polynomial planar vector fields with a hyperbolic or nilpotent critical point at the origin, the monodromy problem has been solved, but for the strongly degenerate critical points this problem is still open. when the critical point is monodromic, the stability problem or the center- focus problem is an open problem too. in this paper we will consider the polynomial planar vector fields ...

So far we have studied the set covering problem, but not looked at any real life applications. The shortest superstring problem takes as input, several strings of different lengths and finds the shortest string that contains all the input strings as substrings. This is helpful in the genome project since it will allow researchers to determine entire coding regions from a collection of fragmente...

To cut down cost in a competitive environment, airlines must avoid delays and operation inefficiencies in both airside and landside. However, previous studies have paid little attention to an airlines’ ground operation in airports’ cargo terminals. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to employ the Fuzzy Critical Path method (CPM) to find out airport’s ground critical operation proce...

Critical path method is a network based method planned for development and organization of complex project in real world application. In this paper, a new methodology has been made to find the critical path in a directed acyclic graph, whose activity time uncertain. The vague parameters in the network are represented by intuitionistic triangular fuzzy numbers, instead of crisp numbers. A new pr...

In this paper, we report preliminary ideas from our project called " Time Performance Improvement With Parallel Processing Systems " (TIPS). In the TIPS project, we plan to take advantage of multi-core platforms for performance improvement by parallelizing a complex soft real-time application implemented in Java. Manual parallelization does not generally yield optimal performance since its resu...

A The new global sustainability ethics 4 B. The new and emerging sustainability challenges 10 C. The new and emerging security challenges 14 D. The World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) advances and retreats 19 E. The critical path forward 26