the decisions made in the planning phase of a building project greatly affect its future operation and maintenance (o&m;) cost. recognizing the o&m; cost of condominiums’ common facilities as a critical issue for home owners, this research aims to develop an artificial neural network (ann) o&m; cost prediction model to assist developers and architects in effectively assessing the impacts of the...

This paper reviews the empirical literature assessing the effects of subsidies for professional sports franchises and facilities. The evidence reveals a great deal of consistency among economists doing research in this area. That evidence is that sports subsidies cannot be justified on the grounds of local economic development, income growth or job creation, those arguments most frequently used...

e-Sports and cyber games are becoming popular among the young population and the effectiveness of gaming industry depends on the effective infrastructure. This paper contemplates some of the future developments required in the information and communications industry to suit the demands of online gamers and e-Sports industry. Some of the modern developments which can add greater facilities to th...

In this paper, we present an approach for adapting a statistical methodology for dialog management within the framework of a new domain. The dialog model, that is automatically learned from a data corpus, is based on the use of a classification process to generate the next system answer. This methodology has been previously applied in a spoken dialog system that provides railway information. We...

the aim of this study was to introduce a new idea in site selection of the sport facilities. at first, the studied domain was categorized into 6 incoherent scales by ahp method and based on 12 criteria including different urban land uses and elements. the lands with the maximum value and the area of 1502965.8 m2 comprised 6% of the whole domain. then, after teaming up on the research project, t...