Two key features of a project are on-time and on-budget delivery. The project manager can only fulfill these objectives if the estimates leading to the project schedule and budget are accurate.

There are numerous coal energy conversion project feasibility studies performed under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) which include capital ...

Bayesian networks (BNs) can be employed to cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA). Most of the existing researches on the BNs for CDA utilized the MCMC algorithm to estimate parameters of BNs. When EM ...

Copyright © 2013 Daniel K. Fisher, H. C. Pringle III. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits ...

Mississippi State University, Delta Research and Extension Center, Stoneville, USA. USDA Agricultural Research Service, Crop Production Systems Research Unit, Stoneville, USA;. In many places ...

Abstract: The article compares the methods for the noise standard deviation estimating on the example of an image with a model additive white Gaussian noise and natural images. For noise standard ...