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Software project management: Theory of constraints, risk management, and performance evaluation
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Mundo Press
, 2014 , Article)
Constraints and risks are two critical factors that affect software project performance; more attention needs to be paid to constraints and risks in order to improve performance. In this paper, investigation will take place ...
Financial portfolio management through the goal programming model: Current state-of-the-art
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2014 , Article)
Since Markowitz (1952) formulated the portfolio selection problem, many researchers have developed models aggregating simultaneously several conflicting attributes such as: the return on investment, risk and liquidity. The ...
A preemptive bound for the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem
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Springer US
, 2014 , Article)
The Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem is one of the most intensively investigated scheduling problems. It requires scheduling a set of interrelated activities, while considering precedence relationships, and ...
Using the Sadakane compressed suffix tree to solve the all-pairs suffix-prefix problem
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Hindawi
, 2014 , Article)
The all-pairs suffix-prefix matching problem is a basic problem in string processing. It has an application in the de novo genome assembly task, which is one of the major bioinformatics problems. Due to the large size of ...
Fuzzy linear programming for supply chain management in steel industry
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Hikari Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
Linear programming is one of the frequently applied tools in supply chain management. However, managers and decision makers may lack information about exact values of most of the parameters used in the optimization models. ...
Effect of the degree of template removal from mesoporous silicate materials on their adsorption of heavy oil from aqueous solution
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Springer VerlagHigher Education Press
, 2014 , Article)
The key aim of this study is to evaluate the adsorption of heavy oil from aqueous solutions with different oil contents over mesoporous silicate materials having different surfactant template contents. The mesoporous ...
Optimal replacement last with continuous and discrete policies
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2014 , Article)
This paper proposes age and periodic replacement last models with continuous, and discrete policies. That is, an operating unit is replaced preventively at time T of operation as a strategic policy, or at a number N of ...
Abandoned petroleum wells as sustainable sources of geothermal energy
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2014 , Article)
A reliable heat transfer model was developed to determine the performance of a double pipe heat exchanger retrofitted to an abandoned petroleum well. The proposed model is compared against an analytical heat transfer model ...
Insights into molecular features of venerupis decussata oocytes: A microarray-based study
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Public Library of Science
, 2014 , Article)
The production of Venerupis decussata relies on wild seed collection, which has been recently compromised due to recruitment failure and severe mortalities. To address this issue and provide an alternative source of seed, ...
Effect of Interlayer Thickness on Joint Formation Between Ti-6Al-4V and Mg-AZ31 Alloys
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Springer New York LLC
, 2014 , Article)
The joining of a Ti-6Al-4V alloy to a Mg-AZ31 alloy was performed using Ni electroplated coatings during the TLP bonding process. In this work, different coating thicknesses were used ranging from 1 to 20 μm. The effect ...