nowadays, project selection is a vital decision in many organizations. because competition among research projects in order to gain more budgets and to attain new scientific domain has increased. due to multiple objectives and budgeting restrictions for academic research projects have led to the use of expert system for decision making by academic and research centers. the existing methods suff...

ment construction project network, Hyundai Engineering and Construction and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology developed a caseand constraint-based project-planning expert system for an apartment domain. The system, FASTRAK-APT, is inspired by the use of previous cases by a human expert project planner for planning a new project and the modification of these cases by the project...

A generic risk matrix is presented for use identifying and assessing project risks quickly and cost effectively. It assists project managers with few resources to perform project risk analysis. The generic risk matrix (GRM) contains a broad set of risks that are categorized and ranked according to their potential impact and probability of occurrence. The matrix assists PMs in quickly identifyin...

Amendment s the FEMA Expert Panel enters its fifth decade, it continues to conduct a comprehensive program of safety evaluation of flavoring substances under the authority of Section 201(s) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, a provision commonly known as the GRAS (“generally recognized as safe”) provision. Expert Panel activities primarily involve the evaluation of new flavoring subst...

Software project estimates are more useful when made early in the project life cycle: this implies that these estimates are to be made in a highly uncertain environment with information that is vague and incomplete. To tackle these challenges in practice, the estimation method most used at this early stage is the Expert Judgment Estimation approach. However, there are a number of problems with ...

There are serious problems with uncertainty referred to various aspects during evolutional development of an innovative software product. An open list of uncertain items in an expert system development is presented. In AI area some formal approaches to uncertainties are applied to build an expert system for medical diagnostics. Following the general idea applied in medicine, an informal approac...