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 …

Based on our knowledge of the functioning human brain, ANNs (artificial neural networks)
serve as a modern paradigm for computing. Drawing on the author's substantial experience …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

This paper deals with the extraction of information from the experts to automatically identify
and recognize Ganoderma infection in oil palm stem using tomography images. Expert's …