Sciweavers

3613 search results - page 323 / 723
» Estimating costs of a service
Sort
View
ESEM
2008
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Phase distribution of software development effort
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...
WSC
1997
15 years 8 months ago
A Framework for Incorporating Dynamic Strategies in Earth-Moving Simulations
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...
Govindan Kannan, Julio C. Martínez, Michael...
WSC
1997
15 years 8 months ago
Petri Net Based Simulation of Construction Schedules
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 ...
Anil Sawhney
ICDE
2010
IEEE
221views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
A generic auto-provisioning framework for cloud databases
— 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...
Jennie Rogers, Olga Papaemmanouil, Ugur Çet...
COMCOM
2007
99views more  COMCOM 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Topology-aware overlay path probing
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...
Chiping Tang, Philip K. McKinley