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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Method selection"”.
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Distributed method selection and dispatching of contingent, temporally flexible plans
… chooses between the functionally redundant methods in the plan to select an execution sequence that satisfies the temporal bounds in the plan. Second, in the plan execution phase, the executive dispatches the plan, using the temporal flexibility to schedule activities dynamically. Previous …
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A case study on an attribute-based design method selection framework
… or properties to identify, compare, and select methods for the design of aerospace systems. Growing product development cost trends for these complex systems have been alarming to the aerospace industry. To curb rising development costs by improving the product design actions that drive them, …
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Development of Fuzzy Hybrid Approaches to Project Delivery Method Selection in Highway Construction
Selection of project delivery methods is a success factor in delivering highway construction projects because it has a substantial impact on the project performance, such as cost, time, and quality. Project delivery decision-making processes have been heavily relied on experts’ opinions and …
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Project and procurement method selection in the context of portfolio consideration and financial constraints
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000.
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Visualization in Geomechanics With an Application to Deep Excavations
… a vivid picture of the effect of excavation method selection on soil behavior and the development of a 3D arch for a square excavation.
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An Evaluation of Text Classification Methods for Literary Study
… frequency ranges; stemming might harm feature selection methods. These experiment results provide new insights to the relation between classification methods, feature engineering options and non-topic document properties. They also provide guidance for classification method selection in …
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The nature of deferred income taxes arising from differences in depreciation methods
… way these changes arose: whether from accounting method selection or from tax law changes.
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The Storytelling + Design Framework: Design Guidance for the Concept Phase of Medical Device Design
… encourages the exploration of different methods to foster dialogue between engineers and healthcare workers. Although engineers are encouraged to follow a user-centered design (UCD) process to identify user needs (ANSI/AAMI, 2009; IEC, 2007), NORA (2009) warns that engineers may “fail to …
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Development and validation of a taxonomy to guide practitioners in the use of video feedback.
… of current literature on video feedback, and the method selection process which resulted in an overarching design science structure, encompassing case studies, implemented in an action research context. A related pair of taxonomies were developed from the literature, and validated both in practice …
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Smart Data Analytics for Manufacturing Processes
… that automatically selects the most suitable method based on a systematic interrogation of the dataset. This work introduces two different smart data analytics approaches for the objectives of supervised classification and fault detection, as they arise for example in the context of process …
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The influence of previous understanding and relative confidence on adult maths learning : building adult understanding on a brownfield site
… wrong, represented only one possibility from a selection of outcomes. Method selection might be influenced by number and beliefs in non-conservation of operation (Greer, 1994) causing potential difficulties for building new learning by method extrapolation. The habit of selt-checkinq and testing …
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Revenue Risk Management for P3 Highway Projects: Implementation of Revenue Guarantees in the U.S. Market
… work examines existing revenue risk management methods and how revenue guarantee options supplement them while also proposing an implementation framework. Additionally, it discusses a new option type,a collar option, including its concept, benefits, applicability, and valuation. In the field …
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Development of a decision-support tool for TxDOT delivery methods selection
Alternative delivery methods for transportation infrastructure projects, besides the traditional Design-Bid-Build (DBB) approach, have been implemented by private and public sectors since the last decades. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is not the exception, and the fact that TxDOT …
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Cellular viability and the occurence and significance of chlorophyll allomers during phytoplankton turnover.
… Initially, to establish an appropriate method for the identification and quantification of chlorophyll allomers, a method selection and optimisation study was carried out. This assessment revealed that chlorophyll was prone to oxidation during sample analysis. Instrumentation, sample …
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Sensory discrimination testing methodology selection based on beverage complexity
… within the food industry. While many testing methods are available for selection, various methods have proven to differ in power. By utilizing a more powerful method, sensory professionals can limit the resources needed for testing and increase their ability to find significant differences …
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Modeling consumer insight strategy in product development process : a decision and implementation framework for product managers
… the Product Development Process, and proposes a method to evaluate options more strategically. This thesis first examines available literature on Product Development Processes and consumer insight methodologies. It then uses Design Structure Matrix to identify consumer insight involvement in …
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Development of a Decision Support Tool for Identifying Appropriate Means and Methods for Locating Underground Utility Assets
… lines, is occupying more space. Traditional methods of surveying, in combination with surface geophysics and the development and improvement of processes and technologies to track the location of buried assets led to the engineering services category termed Subsurface Utility Engineering …
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Method comparison for analysis of LNAPL natural source zone depletion using CO₂ fluxes
… the vadose zone. Building on this concept, three methods have recently emerged to quantify rates of NSZD using soil gas fluxes; these include the gradient, chamber, and trap methods. Unfortunately, side-by-side field applications of the methods have shown differing estimates of NSZD, leaving …
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Quantum Chemistry Meets Machine Learning: Autonomous Computational Workflow for Chemical Discovery
… many unfruitful results and suffer severely from method selection bias, especially on challenging chemical spaces such as transition metal chemistry. These problems limit the automated workflows from providing common prosperity. Similar efficiency and accuracy needed for chemical discovery. In …
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