Effort distribution by phase or activity is an important but often overlooked aspect compared to other steps in the cost estimation process. Poor effort allocation is among the ma...
Ye Yang, Mei He, Mingshu Li, Qing Wang, Barry W. B...
Earthwork projects involve moving specific amounts of earth from a discrete set of source locations to a discrete set of destinations. Constructors use different methods and equip...
Scheduling of a construction project requires: a) hierarchical decomposition of the project; b) incorporation of risk and uncertainty in the activity time and cost estimates; and ...
— We discuss the problem of resource provisioning for database management systems operating on top of an Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) cloud. To solve this problem, we descr...
Path probing is essential to maintaining an efficient overlay network topology. However, the cost of a full-scale probing is as high as O(n2 ), which is prohibitive in large-scale...