The performance assessment of dams is of major importance for optimizing maintenance
management. A methodology is provided here to assess the risk of dam failure using data …

Abstract Information technology projects are particularly prone to failure due to their specific
characteristics, making risk management become one of the critical elements in IT projects …

Originating from models of biological neural systems, artificial neural networks (ANN) are the
cornerstones of artificial intelligence research. Catalyzed by the upsurge in computational …

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a group of autonomous mobile nodes that wirelessly
communicate with each other to form a wireless dynamic topology network. It works without …

Over the past twenty years, institutions and individuals have proposed a wide variety of
standards, models and methodologies for the management of risk, many of which can be …

This paper presents the development of a multiple model estimation approach for the
identification of the adhesion limit to overcome the problem of the wheel slip/slide at the rail …

The acquisition of custom design equipment may be accomplished by selecting a supplier to
launch a product development project. That selection is usually performed by a bidding …

Assessing customer trust in suppliers with regards to its influencing factors is an important
open issue in supply chain management literature. In this paper, a customer trust index is …

The performance of assessment in medical image segmentation is highly correlated with the
extraction of anatomic structures from them, and the major task is how to separate the …

Harrowing is often used to reduce weed competition, generally using a constant intensity
across a whole field. The efficacy of weed harrowing in wheat and barley can be optimized …