This paper considers a periodic preventive maintenance policy under which each preventive maintenance (PM) reduces the hazard rate of the repairable system, while keeping the pattern of hazard rate unchanged. For this model, the hazard rate at a given time t is affected by the improvement factor...

The challenge of service distribution has been considered in the fields of cross-organizational interoperability, grid computing and task delegation but little addressed for cross-zone application deployment in Cloud Computing. This paper proposes a process model transformation technique based...

Actions such as the WEEE Directive and RoHS Directive are forcing electronics suppliers to transition their products from tin-lead to lead-free solder in order to support consumer goods. The defense and avionics industries obtain their parts from the same suppliers and must adapt to these new...

A version of this paper appeared in the Proceedings of the AWWA 2009 Annual Conference and Exhibition, San Diego, CA

James? Storey Enclosure Method (JSEM), developed in 1954, is considered by many to be the most sophisticated single-rate method ever devised for early-design-stage tender price forecasts. However, the method is seldom used in practice partly because it has been superseded by multi-rate methods...

Building client/owners need estimates of likely construction costs for budgeting purposes early in the procurement process when little detailed design information is available beyond the type, size and location of the facility. One of the more sophisticated techniques available for this purpose...

The importance of textile recycling has long been highlighted and extensively covered in the literature. More recently, tightening waste regulations have forced household waste management organizations to seriously consider different alternatives for reducing the amount of textiles in mixed...