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Eygelaar, Anton Burger. "Resource constrained step scheduling of project tasks." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4494.
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Thesis (MScEng (Civil Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2008.<br>Thesis presented in partial fulfilment
of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Science in Civil Engineering
at the University of Stellenbosch.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The logical scheduling of activities in an engineering project currently relies heavily on the
experience and intuition of the persons responsible for the schedule. In large projects the
complexity of the schedule far exceeds the capacity of human intuition, and systematic
techniques are required to compute a consistent sequence of activities. In this study a simple
model of the engineering process is described. Based on certain specified relationships
between components of the model, a consistent sequence of activities is determined in the
form of a logical step schedule. The problem of resource constraints receives special attention.
Engineering projects are often executed with limited resources and determining the impact of
such restrictions on the logical step schedule is important. This study investigates activityshifting
strategies to find a near-optimal sequence of activities that guarantees consistent
evolution of deliverables while resolving resource conflicts within the context of logical step
schedules.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die logiese skedulering van aktiwiteite in ‘n ingenieursprojek steun swaar op die
ondervinding en intuisie van die persone wat verantwoordelik is vir die skedule. In groot
projekte is die kompleksiteit van die skedule veel hoër as die kapasiteit van die menslike
intuisie, en sistematiese tegnieke word benodig om ‘n konsekwente volgorde van aktiwiteite
te bereken. In hierdie studie word ‘n eenvoudige model van die ingenieursproses beskryf.
Gebasseer op sommige relasies tussen komponente van die model, kan ‘n konsekwente
volgorde van aktiwiteite bepaal word in die vorm van ‘n logiese stap-skedule. Die probleem
van beperkte hulpbronne ontvang spesiale aandag. Ingenieursprojekte word dikwels uitgevoer
met beperkte hulpbronne en dit is belangrik om die impak daarvan op die logiese stap-skedule
te bepaal. Die studie ondersoek die gebruik van aktiwiteit-skuiwende strategieë om ‘n nabyoptimale
volgorde van aktiwiteite te vind wat konsekwente ontwikkeling van die projekprodukte
waarborg, terwyl hulpbron konflikte opgelos word binne die konteks van ‘n logiese
stap-skedule.
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Jaber, Khaled M. "Supporting Project Tasks, Resources, Documents, and Defects Analysis in Software Project Management." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1461609929.
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McCauley, Randall Wayne. "Sex and handedness effects on two types of cognitive ability tasks." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/462.
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Büsch, Mario P. "The role of procurement professionals in industrial projects : organisation, roles, and tasks for professional project procurement." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2013. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/646/.
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This thesis deals with the involvement and role of procurement professionals in industrial projects. The role of procurement in industrial organisations with continuing operations has attracted considerable attention over the last several years; however, the role of procurement in industrial projects is rather under-researched. The literature review undertaken confirms that existing procurement literature based on continuous operations is in itself consistent and describes in depth the organisational principles as well as the role of procurement. From a project management point of view, procurement is mainly considered a transactional task, and remarkably few project management standards consider procurement at all. To overcome this gap, a Procurement Project Involvement Matrix has been developed in this thesis from the literature. This matrix defines, with examples, four possible project types in which procurement experts might be involved: an engineering project, a product development project, a multidisciplinary project, and a project portfolio. Based on these four project types, the research analyses what procurement experts do and what they should do. This thesis develops an integrated framework based on four interdependent research steps. The framework then allows the definition of the appropriate procurement tasks for all procurement job levels in relation to the project type. In addition, as both the procurement organisation and leadership tasks are of significant importance, a Project Procurement Organisation Model is developed. In general, the project procurement job tasks framework as well as the Project Procurement Organisation Model will help to implement, improve and audit the involvement level of procurement in projects. The thesis draws its findings from the analysis of a wide range of data. First secondary sources, such as job advertisements, public training programmes and presentations held at the BME (German member of the International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management) symposium, were accessed. This was followed by an in-depth analysis of four consulting projects performed by the researcher in a project-based environment. The thesis concludes with a qualitative survey performed by means of interviews. Figure 1 summarises the thesis and provides an overview of the research, including references to the entire study. The numbers in the speech balloons below reference the appropriate figures. Even though the arrows suggest a sequential flow of the research, in reality the individual steps are interdependent, as shown in Figure 3 on page 9.
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Jordan, Sharon Teresa. "Correlates of cognitive skills used by boys and girls on sequencing and construction tasks." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/214.
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Corley, Sean Ryan. "Cholinergic basal forebrain involvement in the acquisition of differential reinforcement of low rate responding tasks in rats." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2780.
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It was hypothesized that 192 IgG-saporin lesions of the basal forebrain cholinergic system (BFCS) would disrupt differential reinforcement of low rate (DRL) learning in an uncued DRL task, but would not impair acquisition and performance in the cued version of the task. Results suggest that BFCS lesions impair vigilance to the external cues despite continued practice in the cued DRL, whereas continuous attention to internally produced cues recovers with extended practice in the uncued DRL.
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Cunningham, Brian. "The Impact of Reward Structure on Project Team Effectiveness." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31116.
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There have been thousands of studies on teams and their performance, but there are still many unanswered questions. An important one is how an organization's reward structure supports the growing trend of using teams. Many organizations implement teams without changing the organizational systems to align with and support the use of teams, i.e., training, feedback, information and reward systems. As predicted by many authorities in the field of team effectiveness research, these teams often fail. One organizational subsystem that has been determined to be important is the reward structure. If the reward structure is not changed to support a team-based structure, the misalignment could negatively impact team effectiveness.
This research investigated the relationship between reward structure and team effectiveness using a laboratory experiment. This experiment involved groups of students working as a team on a design problem. The independent variable is the type of reward structure, manipulated over three levels: interdependent (group), independent (individual) and mixed rewards (both group and individual). The experiment used a design task, intended to be more representative of project team work where team members were assigned a functional discipline and worked together to solve a design problem.
The primary dependent variable in this study was team effectiveness: team performance as measured by the quality of the team's design, satisfaction of team members, and the ability and desire of team members to work together in the future. Other control variables investigated for their effect on these dependent variables included: cooperative behaviors, reward valence, effort, and autonomy preferences.
Few significant effects of reward structure were found. The reward treatment had a significant main effect on both cooperation and effort, but little difference existed between reward treatments. Some unusual results were found in the relationship between effort and cooperation with performance. Both effort and cooperation were negatively related to team performance. Cooperation, satisfaction and ability to exist were all found to be correlated. No one reward structure was found to be significantly better than any of the others in terms of team effectiveness or team process.<br>Master of Science
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Brooks, Andrew Stephen. "Cohesiveness and performance in an organisational setting : an empirical setting." Thesis, Keele University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311126.
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Although cohesiveness has been studied for more than half a century, there is no common definition and associated measure. The current focus of research has moved from general explanations to context specific approaches. This particular thesis focuses on organisationally based, limited life, project teams. Despite the increasing use of these types of teams over the last 15 years, there is no published literature dealing directly with them, and no instrument designed specifically to measure their cohesiveness. This study has defined the construct of cohesiveness for these teams, using team members themselves, and a psychometrically sound measure of cohesiveness has been devised. It is made up of two sub-scales: task and people, and 20 component items. This tool is designed not only as an indicator of cohesiveness but also as a diagnostic tool to allow teams to increase their cohesiveness. Meta-analytical research has found that cohesiveness and performance are related, but that a number of factors moderate this relationship, e.g. type ofteam (Mullen and Copper, 1994). Using the task/people cohesiveness measure, three studies relating cohesiveness to performance and other variables were undertaken. Since project teams are of limited life and each team's output is unique, a correlational design was utilised. Altogether, data from over 500 teams was collected. Studies were carried out with 'real' teams and also a number of teams undertaking a business simulation game. Cohesiveness was found to be related to performance across a basket of performance measures in both circumstances. Task cohesiveness was more strongly related to performance than was people cohesiveness. By comparing levels of performance feedback, evidence was found to support Mullen and Coppers' (1994) suggestion that performance and cohesiveness have a reciprocal effect on one another and that the performance to cohesiveness effect is the larger of the two. The relationship of a number of variables to both cohesiveness and also the cohesivenessperformance relationship were investigated. This thesis contributes to the literature by using Social Identity Theory as an approach to defining and producing a measure of cohesiveness for a specific type of group - project teams. Its application has provided data on the cohesiveness-performance relationship that supports earlier meta-analytical findings where these are comparable.
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Freehling, Seth. "The usage of Internet technologies by high school students in the completion of educational tasks outside of the school setting." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2940.
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Examines the use of Information and Communicative Technologies (ICT) by high school students from economically-disadvantaged households to complete homework assignments. Results of a survey of 240 high school students at an urban, inner-city high school located in Southern California, indicated, (1) the Digital Divide is narrowing among social classes, as most students reported having Internet access from their homes, (2) students willingness to embrace new uses of ICT in their studies, (3) the speed of completing homework was increased through the use of ICT multi-tasking and the use of search engines and, (4) computer maintenance issues were not a significant hindrance, as most students have some basic computer literacy skills.
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Koreňová, L., M. Dillingerová, P. Vankúš, and D. Židová. "Experience with solving real-life math problems in DQME II project." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-80425.
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The network "Developing Quality in Mathematics Education II" is a continuation of the associated project "Developing Quality in Mathematics Education" (http://www.dqime.unidortmund. de). In this project participate universities, teacher education institutions and
schools from 11 European countries. Cross-cultural cooperation and exchange of ideas, materials, teachers and pupils support developing quality in mathematics education, especially in the area of mathematical modelling. The quality and application of the developed learning materials is also guaranteed by using, comparing and modifying them in eleven different countries. This comparison leads to an agreement about contents of mathematical learning and teaching in eleven European countries. Thus we want to establish a "European Curriculum for the teaching and learning of mathematics" in the 21st century. A special feature of this project is the strong connection between theory and practice and between the research and development of mathematics education. In this project our Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of Comenius University Bratislava manage testing of translated teaching materials at the high school „Gymnazium Sturovo“. We know that using ICT and didactical software in schools is almost present and wide spread. So we try to focus on several possibilities in solving real-life tasks using this technologies, regard to the fact technologies are hard upon the young generation of students.
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Pishdad-Bozorgi, Pardis. "Case-based Study and Analysis of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) Approach and Trust-Building Attributes." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77143.
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The goal of this Ph.D. research is to explore the IPD contractual strategies, to highlight the elements that distinguish IPD from a traditional delivery approach, to analyze how trust-based relationships are established and promoted, and to demonstrate if/how trust and IPD contractual principles correlate.
The result of this research will promote the understanding of the industry on the strategies that promote trust and integration through real world case studies. The significance of the subject becomes more evident when reflecting on the current industry's crisis: productivity loss, fragmented delivery process, and lack of trust and collaboration.
Through a literature review a Project Delivery and Contracting Strategies (PDCS) framework, an IPD traits framework, and a trust-Building framework are developed. The frameworks are used as the organizational tools to structure and inquire relevant information on the two IPD projects.
An expert panel is assembled to discuss the frameworks and the findings of literature analysis and to seek the industry's insight on the units of analysis for contract, and the units of measure for trust. The units of analysis for contract are elements, such as strategies for risks/rewards sharing, liability considerations, decision making authority, and governance. The units of measure for trust are the individuals' perception, and the trust-building attributes as outlined in table 4-1.
Two IPD projects were selected and their contract agreements were studied. A questionnaire including both open-ended questions and multiple choice questions was developed based on the information collected through: 1. the IPD agreements in each case study, 2. the literature-based frameworks on trust and project delivery contracting strategies. Accordingly, two IPD case studies are developed following the analysis of their IPD agreements and the individual one-on-one interviews with their key IPD players.
The trust-building framework presented in this work includes a series of techniques that the contracting parties can follow when establishing their contractual and managerial strategies and also when interacting with each other.<br>Ph. D.
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Rauscher, Willem Johannes. "The technological knowledge used by technology education students in capability tasks." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09242009-224216.
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Tsang, Vanessa. "An itemised study of the relationship between student attitude and performance as measured by selected musical tasks in the 2000 National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP) scores and survey results." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Music, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4119.
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The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that there is a link between children's musical experiences and attitudes, and their musical skills and understandings. For the purpose of the research, experience and attitudes have been measured by the National Education Monitoring Projects (NEMP) 2000 Music Survey, whilst the NEMP 2000 Assessment Results have been used to provide levels of musical skills and understandings. The first part of this study focuses on the nature of NEMP music assessment in relation to different aptitude, ability and achievement tests, and compares NEMP with various national assessments, in particular the ones used by the United States of America and Wales.
The second part of the study tests the hypothesis that whether a link is present between children's musical experiences and attitudes, and the extent of their musical skills and understandings, as revealed in their NEMP survey results and scores. The analysed results should be helpful in teacher education situations in determining the balance and relationship between teaching musical skills and understandings alongside student attitudes and previous experiences.
Based on the sample used in this research, correlation analyses showed that attitudes toward music do not have a strong influence on students' musical abilities. A greater number of relationships was found between musical experiences and students' NEMP scores. This result is similar to a few other attitude researches which will be briefly discussed and compared.
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Mohanty, Deepanwita. "Performance of older people at different levels of task complexity." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1740.
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Technological innovations and career changes have made the workers need for training/retraining an important issue in organizations. However, due to presumed age differences in the ability to benefit from training, employers are sometimes concerned about spending money on training for older workers. This study investigated the relationship of age with attitude about computer training (self-efficacy and anxiety) and training performance at different levels of task complexity.
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Kindlová, Dita. "Návrh informačního systému." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-223794.
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Mohney, Jack D. "Age and vigilance: The effects of event rate and task pacing." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/329.
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Gyll, Sean Paul. "The automatic activation of ethnic stereotypes in a simple cognitive task." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1303.
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David, Le Bezvoët Monica. "Proposition d'un système de pilotage du processus d'innovation NSD pour le secteur de la finance." Phd thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00826135.
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Ces travaux sont du domaine de génie systèmes industriels et l'ingénierie de l'innovation. Ils se sont déroulés dans l'industrie de services financiers au sein du groupe de banque-assurance Groupama. Les services représentent 64% de PIB mondial. Le secteur employait en 2007 en France près de 20 millions de personnes contre 5 millions pour l'industrie. Pourtant la recherche sur les processus d'innovation présente un déséquilibre avec un article scientifique NSD (new service development) pour quatre NPD (new product development). L'objectif de ces travaux est de proposer une méthode de pilotage des projets d'innovation dans les services. Pour formaliser le pilotage d'innovation dans les services tout en préservant la zone de liberté nécessaire à l'innovation, nous sommes basés sur un formalisme de type NPD pour définir un processus NSD qui respecte la flexibilité spécifique de l'innovation dans les services. Le cœur de notre hypothèse a été d'identifier des invariants de processus NSD. Nous proposons six classes d'invariants : les OICs (Objets Intermédiaires de Conception), les ressources, les compétences, les tâches, les indicateurs et les méthodes. Leurs interactions sont rendues dans un Diagramme de Classes UML. Un projet peut être décrit comme une " somme " d'OIC eux-mêmes résultat de l'agencement des 5 autres invariants. Ces six classes d'invariants ont été validées sur projets de Groupama. Elles permettent de décrire, suivre, capitaliser, réutiliser des savoirs acquis sur des projets antérieurs et de manager les projets innovants. Nous proposons aussi un processus de pilotage des projets NSD, formalisé par un Diagramme d'Ordonnancement des Phases sous MEGA.
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Clair, Mark Alan. "Reflex sympathetic dystrophy: A task-related electroencephalographic analysis in chronic pain patients." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1245.
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Haile, Leslie Christine. "The effect of individualized versus cooperative learning on achievement and task performance." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1269.
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The present study investigates whether individuals who are trained in groups will benefit from a more enhanced facilitation of the information than those trained in a more traditional, individualistic, classroom setting. Participants who learn in a cooperative, group setting are expected to exhibit better performance on a subsequent knowledge test than participants who learn individually.
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Grey, Jennifer. "BUFFER TECHNIQUES FOR STOCHASTIC RESOURCE CONSTRAINED PROJECT SCHEDULING WITH STOCHASTIC TASK INSERTIONS PROBLEMS." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2678.
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Project managers are faced with the challenging task of managing an environment filled with uncertainties that may lead to multiple disruptions during project execution. In particular, they are frequently confronted with planning for routine and non-routine unplanned work: known, identified, tasks that may or may not occur depending upon various, often unpredictable, factors. This problem is known as the stochastic task insertion problem, where tasks of deterministic duration occur stochastically. Traditionally, project managers may include an extra margin within deterministic task times or an extra time buffer may be allotted at the end of the project schedule to protect the final project completion milestone. Little scientific guidance is available to better integrate buffers strategically into the project schedule. Motivated by the Critical Chain and Buffer Management approach of Goldratt, this research identifies, defines, and demonstrates new buffer sizing techniques to improve project duration and stability metrics associated with the stochastic resource constrained project scheduling problem with stochastic task insertions. Specifically, this research defines and compares partial buffer sizing strategies for projects with varying levels of resource and network complexity factors as well as the level and location of the stochastically occurring tasks. Several project metrics may be impacted by the stochastic occurrence or non-occurrence of a task such as the project makespan and the project stability. New duration and stability metrics are developed in this research and are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed buffer sizing techniques. These "robustness measures" are computed through the comparison of the characteristics of the initial schedule (termed the infeasible base schedule), a modified base schedule (or as-run schedule) and an optimized version of the base schedule (or perfect knowledge schedule). Seven new buffer sizing techniques are introduced in this research. Three are based on a fixed percentage of task duration and the remaining four provide variable buffer sizes based upon the location of the stochastic task in the schedule and knowledge of the task stochasticity characteristic. Experimental analysis shows that partial buffering produces improvements in the project stability and duration metrics when compared to other baseline scheduling approaches. Three of the new partial buffering techniques produced improvements in project metrics. One of these partial buffers was based on a fixed percentage of task duration and the other two used a variable buffer size based on knowledge of the location of the task in the project network. This research provides project schedulers with new partial buffering techniques and recommendations for the type of partial buffering technique that should be utilized when project duration and stability performance improvements are desired. When a project scheduler can identify potential unplanned work and where it might occur, the use of these partial buffer techniques will yield a better estimated makespan. Furthermore, it will result in less disruption to the planned schedule and minimize the amount of time that specific tasks will have to move to accommodate the unplanned tasks.<br>Ph.D.<br>Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems<br>Engineering and Computer Science<br>Industrial Engineering PhD
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Fillpot, James Michael. "Computer-generated speech training versus natural speech training at various task difficulty levels." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/746.
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Fogg, Richard John. "The effects of feedback and strategy on self-efficacy and computer task performance." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1023.
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Mazur, Lukasz Maciej. "Project Task: Member Assignment Using Design Structure Matrix and Genetic Algorithm in Concurrent Engineering Project Management." Thesis, Montana State University, 2005. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2005/mazur/MazurL0505.pdf.
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In concurrent engineering, project tasks generally require the establishment of multifunctional teams to simultaneously consider various activities throughout the entire product life cycle. Team members from different functional departments of the company interact in every phase of development activities to design products and processes concurrently. This concurrent strategy increases the complexity of product development and design processes and makes teams difficult to organize. Without effective task coordination and team organization, the lack of communication and cooperation among team members in a large group of tasks could seriously delay the project completion. This research provides an integrated solution to overcome these difficulties. This research aims to model both project tasks and team members for the task-member assignments. To accomplish this, we develop an integrated framework that includes three major components: a project task model, a team member model and a task-member assignment model. The project task model optimizes the complex task structure using a Genetic Algorithm (GA), while Design Structure Matrix (DSM) identifies the three major project task types: independent, dependent, and interdependent. The team member model provides a quantitative representation for three important team member characteristics, namely functional knowledge, teamwork capability and working relationship. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and personality profiling using Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) are used to obtain ratings of team member characteristics. According to the project task structure, quantified team member characteristics, and each member\'s workload schedule, the task-member assignment model accomplishes the ultimate goal of this research - assigning the right team members to the right tasks at the right time. The effectiveness of the developed methodology is demonstrated by an illustrative example.
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Villado, Anton James. "Face-to-face versus computer-mediated communication: An investigation of multiple outcomes across task-types." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2082.
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A novel approach was used to investigate differences between groups using computer-mediated and face-to-face communication. In a laboratory setting, three-person groups completed three survival themed tasks. The tasks were related in that the output of a preliminary task became the input of the sequent task.
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Ormandy, Sally-Marie. "The CLASS Project: A New Zealand Pilot." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Educational Studies and Human Development, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5445.
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The aim of this project was to evaluate the Contingencies for Learning Academic and Social Skills (CLASS) programme in four New Zealand classrooms. Four students with antisocial behaviour were nominated by their teachers to take part in an intervention that included differential attention, increased praise and rewards. Direct observations were made of compliance to teacher instructions, on-task behaviour, teacher praise and teacher instructions. Results indicated that on-task behaviour and compliance to teacher instructions increased during the intervention phase and was maintained during the follow-up. Teachers were also able to increase their rate of praise per hour during the intervention phase and their praise rate remained greater at follow-up than during the baseline phase. In the absence of pre-service and in-service behaviour management training for teachers, the CLASS programme proved to be a useful tool to assist teachers who have to work with children with high rates of antisocial behaviour.
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Archer, Sandra. "STOCHASTIC RESOURCE CONSTRAINED PROJECT SCHEDULING WITH STOCHASTIC TASK INSERTION PROBLEMS." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3520.
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The area of focus for this research is the Stochastic Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (SRCPSP) with Stochastic Task Insertion (STI). The STI problem is a specific form of the SRCPSP, which may be considered to be a cross between two types of problems in the general form: the Stochastic Project Scheduling Problem, and the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem. The stochastic nature of this problem is in the occurrence/non-occurrence of tasks with deterministic duration. Researchers Selim (2002) and Grey (2007) laid the groundwork for the research on this problem. Selim (2002) developed a set of robustness metrics and used these to evaluate two initial baseline (predictive) scheduling techniques, optimistic (0% buffer) and pessimistic (100% buffer), where none or all of the stochastic tasks were scheduled, respectively. Grey (2007) expanded the research by developing a new partial buffering strategy for the initial baseline predictive schedule for this problem and found the partial buffering strategy to be superior to Selim s extreme buffering approach. The current research continues this work by focusing on resource aspects of the problem, new buffering approaches, and a new rescheduling method. If resource usage is important to project managers, then a set of metrics that describes changes to the resource flow would be important to measure between the initial baseline predictive schedule and the final as-run schedule. Two new sets of resource metrics were constructed regarding resource utilization and resource flow. Using these new metrics, as well as the Selim/Grey metrics, a new buffering approach was developed that used resource information to size the buffers. The resource-sized buffers did not show to have significant improvement over Grey s 50% buffer used as a benchmark. The new resource metrics were used to validate that the 50% buffering strategy is superior to the 0% or 100% buffering by Selim. Recognizing that partial buffers appear to be the most promising initial baseline development approach for STI problems, and understanding that experienced project managers may be able to predict stochastic probabilities based on prior projects, the next phase of the research developed a new set of buffering strategies where buffers are inserted that are proportional to the probability of occurrence. The results of this proportional buffering strategy were very positive, with the majority of the metrics (both robustness and resource), except for stability metrics, improved by using the proportional buffer. Finally, it was recognized that all research thus far for the SRCPSP with STI focused solely on the development of predictive schedules. Therefore, the final phase of this research developed a new reactive strategy that tested three different rescheduling points during schedule eventuation when a complete rescheduling of the latter portion of the schedule would occur. The results of this new reactive technique indicate that rescheduling improves the schedule performance in only a few metrics under very specific network characteristics (those networks with the least restrictive parameters). This research was conducted with extensive use of Base SAS v9.2 combined with SAS/OR procedures to solve project networks, solve resource flow problems, and implement reactive scheduling heuristics. Additionally, Base SAS code was paired with Visual Basic for Applications in Excel 2003 to implement an automated Gantt chart generator that provided visual inspection for validation of the repair heuristics. The results of this research when combined with the results of Selim and Grey provide strong guidance for project managers regarding how to develop baseline predictive schedules and how to reschedule the project as stochastic tasks (e.g. unplanned work) do or do not occur. Specifically, the results and recommendations are provided in a summary tabular format that describes the recommended initial baseline development approach if a project manager has a good idea of the level and location of the stochasticity for the network, highlights two cases where rescheduling during schedule eventuation may be beneficial, and shows when buffering proportional to the probability of occurrence is recommended, or not recommended, or the cases where the evidence is inconclusive.<br>Ph.D.<br>Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems<br>Engineering and Computer Science<br>Industrial Engineering PhD
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Archer, Sandra. "Stochastic resource constrained project scheduling with stochastic task insertions problems." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002491.
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Hapel, Françoise. "L2 et EPS réunis dans un projet commun. Le cirque en CLIN. Quels effets sur l'apprentissage du français ?" Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030093/document.
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Cette recherche se situe dans le domaine de la didactique des langues. Elle s’appuie sur une expérience d’enseignement du français à travers la mise en place d’un projet d’arts du cirque menée en classe d’initiation (CLIN). L’hypothèse est que les activités de cirque, par les émotions qu’elles mettent en jeu et les situations de communication qu’elles développent, sont déclencheuses d’une prise de parole spontanée et ont un effet positif sur la production orale des apprenants en L2. Les étapes de réalisation du projet tiennent compte de l’évolution de la place des émotions dans la pratique de cette activité artistique : Se mouvoir pour s’émouvoir ; Voir et s’émouvoir ; Donner à voir pour émouvoir. L’analyse des tâches mises en place à la lumière des théories de l’acquisition des langues permet de mesurer leur impact sur le développement de la production orale des apprenants en français. L’analyse de la production orale ainsi que de l’investissement des apprenants dans le projet et des émotions qu’ils ont exprimées, permet de mettre en évidence certains éléments du rapport émotion/investissement/acquisition d’une L2. En mesurant la portée et les limites de cette étude, je peux proposer quelques perspectives et conseils pour la mise en place d’un projet cirque visant l’acquisition d’une L2<br>This research is situated in the field of language teaching. It is based on an experience of teaching French through a circus arts project, conducted in a primary school with a group of children aged 6 to 11, recently arrived in France. The hypothesis is that circus activities through the emotions involved and the implied situations of communication lead to spontaneous speech and have a positive effect of L2 oral production. The steps of the project take into account the evolution of emotions developed in these artistic activities: - Move to feel moved - See and feel moved – Give to see for spectators to feel moved. The analysis of the tasks in the light of language acquisition theories leads to a better understanding of the impact of this project on learners’ oral production of French. The analysis of the oral production, the examination of the investment of learners in the project and of emotions they expressed, allow me to highlight certain elements of the link between emotion, investment and L2 acquisition. After measuring the scope and limits of this study, I can suggest a few perspectives and advice for the establishment of a circus project involving L2 acquisition
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Zhou, Peilin. "The effect of social support on job satisfaction at the varying levels of job stress and task structure." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/466.
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Rice, Jennifer Renee. "Quality or quantity?: Refining the definition of the means efficacy construct and its relationship to task specific self-efficacy." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3326.
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The purpose of this study was to expand on the definition of the means efficacy construct and its relationship to task-specific self-efficacy. The current research has three studies: assesssing quality means efficacy from a self-report method, study two assessing quality means efficacy from a self-report method, and study three comparing quality and quantity means efficacy to determine which would be a better predictor of confidence in various tasks.
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Mokrá, Radka. "Návrh a implementace nástroje pro plánování projektů a času s využitím principů z oblasti plánování úloh reálného času." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-235020.
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This master's thesis deals with design of application for scheduling projects and time using principles of real time scheduling. In the beginning this thesis describes project management and time management and their principles. In the next chapter are principles and algorithms of scheduling in real time system described. The next chapter deals with design of application for scheduling projects and time using principles of real time scheduling. MVC design pattern is described in following chapter.Implementation of tool is desribed in next-to-last chapter a the last chapter is devoted to use cases of final tool.
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Villanueva-Jordan, Ivan, and Eliana Gallardo-Echenique. "A Pilot Study on Subtitling Tasks and Projects for Intercultural Awareness and Queer Pedagogy." Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/656454.
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El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado.<br>This paper presents the results of a pilot study on the use of active interlingual subtitling for intercultural awareness and queer pedagogy. The subtitling tasks and project were carried out with Ooona, an online subtitling software, and as part of an optional course on gender and sexuality at an undergraduate university program in Translation. The data collected are based on the Spanish subtitles produced by the students from audiovisual content originally in English, as well as on questionnaires and reports that they completed after subtitling. The results reveal how cloud-based subtitling software is a useful tool for students to position themselves regarding online video content online, as well as how the audiovisual representation of queer characters allows students to reflect on aspects of the gender/sex system when they must transfer linguistic content that is rooted in different socio-cultural systems.
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速水, 敏彦, Toshihiko HAYAMIZU, 史高 安藤, Fumitaka ANDO, 雅仁 木下 та Masahito KINOSHITA. "Task-based Syllabusの開発の試み : Long Term Projectsが生徒の学業達成・動機づけに及ぼす影響". 名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/3168.
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Pelletier, Kathie Lynne. "The effects of leadership style and sex-role deviation of female leaders on perceptions of leader effectiveness, leader satisfaction, and task satisfaction." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1514.
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Yilmaz, Yagiz Sevil. "Dspptool: A Tool To Support Distributed Software Project Planning." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12604761/index.pdf.
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This thesis focuses on the development of a distributed software project planning tool that enables more than one participant to prepare the different parts of the
project scope, schedule and task assignment by allowing to utilize the predefined organizational level processes. For this purpose, we discuss the need for a distributed software project planning tool, identify tool requirements and compare available tools with respect to the requirements. In addition, we evaluate the tool based on two criteria: first one is the tool&rsquo<br>s adequacy to meet the identified
functional attributes and the second one is the validation of the tool by utilizing the data of the project schedule of a real project. This tool enables preparation of project scope, schedule and task assignments in a more effective, accurate and seamless way.
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Blunt, Allan. "Task aversiveness and procrastination, a multi-dimensional approach to task aversiveness across stages of personal projects." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0010/MQ26950.pdf.
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Dzokoto, Frank K. "Information behaviour of construction project actors." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/23173.
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Construction is one of the largest industry sectors in terms of size and output in the United Kingdom (UK). The sector contributes about 10% directly to the UK's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and drives historical GDP growth. However, Construction projects and Organisations continue to underperform at significant levels which is underpinned by actors' Information Behaviours (IBs).
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Ладика, Є. І. "Розробка стратегії економічного та соціального розвитку громади (на прикладі Дальніщької ОТГ)". Thesis, Одеський національний економічний університет, 2020. http://dspace.oneu.edu.ua/jspui/handle/123456789/12636.
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У роботі розглядаються теоретичні аспекти розвитку територій: поняття місцевого економічного розвитку міста, нормативно-правові засади стратегічного планування в Україні на місцевому рівні, методичні підходи до формування стратегії розвитку ОТГ.
Проаналізовано економічний стан розвитку ОТГ, виявлено основні тенденції розвитку, визначені сильні та слабкі сторони ОТГ, можливості та загрози зовнішнього середовища.
Запропоновано стратегію розвиткуДальницької ОТГ на період до 2025 р., розроблено план дій з реалізації проектів розвитку.<br>The theoretical aspects of territorial development are considered in the work: the concept of local economic development of the city, normative-legal bases of strategic planning in Ukraine at local level, methodical approaches to formation of strategy of development of OTG.
The economic state of OTG development is analyzed, the main development trends are identified, the strengths and weaknesses of OTG, opportunities and threats of the external environment are identified. The strategy of development of Dalnytska OTG for the period till 2025 is offered, the action plan on realization of development projects is developed.
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Osborn, Harold Carr. "Examining Task Conflict and Team Atmosphere in Virtual Teams Engaged in Outsourced Project Work." Diss., NSUWorks, 2019. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/1092.
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Global teams have become commonplace. As teams have become more dispersed, leveraging outsourced resources has gained popularity. Outsourcing can be a prudent move financially; however, when it is inappropriately applied, the damage it produces can easily overshadow any financial gains. Such ill effects can include impaired employee performance and morale caused by decreased job security. Moreover, it can lead to a less favorable team atmosphere and increased task conflict.
This study examined the effects of team virtuality along with the strategic alignment of outsourcing on team performance. The research utilized the intervening processes theory (IPT). The IPT posits that the relationship between certain constructs cannot be measured directly; however, the impact can be measured through other constructs. In the case of this study, it was the impacts of the constructs of virtuality, job security, outsourcing, and team temporariness on team performance. The intervening constructs were team atmosphere and task conflict.
The research instrument was an online survey. The results of this survey supported the hypotheses that task conflict was impacted by team virtualization, job security, and team atmosphere. Weak support was provided for the influence of team temporariness on task conflict. The impacts of team virtualization and job security on team atmosphere were not supported. Finally, team performance was influenced by team atmosphere but not task conflict.
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Grose, Roger T. "Cost-constrained project scheduling with task durations and costs that may increase over time demonstrated with the U.S. Army future combat systems /." Thesis, View thesis via NPS View thesis via DTIC, 2004. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA424957.
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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2004.<br>Title from title screen (viewed June 28, 2005). "June 2004." Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61). Also issued in paper format.
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Гутников, В. С. "Напрямки забезпечення місцевого економічного розвитку (на прикладі Дальницької ОТГ)". Thesis, Одеський національний економічний університет, 2020. http://dspace.oneu.edu.ua/jspui/handle/123456789/12634.
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У роботі розглядаються теоретичні аспекти розвитку територій: поняття місцевого економічного розвитку (МЕР) об'єднаних територіальних громад (ОТГ), нормативно-правові засади стратегічного планування в Україні на місцевому рівні, методичні підходи до формування МЕР ОТГ.
Проаналізовано економічний стан розвитку ОТГ, виявлено основні тенденції розвитку, проаналізовано паспорт громади, визначені сильні та слабкі сторони ОТГ, можливості та загрози зовнішнього середовища, в рамках пріоритетів розвитку ОТГ визначено напрями формування проектів розвитку громади.
Запропоновано проект створення аквапарку у курортної зоні Дальницької ОТГ.<br>The paper considers theoretical aspects of territorial development: the concept of local economic development (LED) of united territorial communities (UTC), legal framework for strategic planning in Ukraine at the local level, methodological approaches to the formation of LED UTC.
The economic state of UTC development is analyzed, the main tendencies of development are revealed, the community passport is analyzed, the strengths and weaknesses of UTC, opportunities and threats of the external environment are determined, within the UTC development priorities the directions of community development projects are determined.
The project of creation of a water park in the resort zone of Dalnytska UTC is offered.
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Grose, Roger. "Cost-constrained project scheduling with task durations and costs that may increase over time : demonstrated with the U.S. Army future combat systems /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Jun%5FGrose.pdf.
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Choi, Lai Kun. "Authenticity in ELT task design : a case study of an ESP project-based learning module." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9065.
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Authenticity has been viewed as an important issue for ELT and particularly for ESP in creating a communicative language environment (e.g. Breen 1997; Lee 1995; Mishan 2005; Dudley-Evan and St John 1998; Harding 2007) – in order that learners are exposed to ‘real English’ with ‘intrinsically communicative quality’ (Lee 1995) and rehearse the real-world target communication tasks they will have to perform in their future workplace (Nunan 2004:20). This echoes what is advocated in the current Hong Kong educational reform curriculum documents. This thesis explores the theoretical and practical issues concerning the notion of authenticity through a case study of a project-based learning (PBL) module in an ESP curriculum in the context of a Hong Kong vocational institution, and derives from the research findings a 3-level authenticity model applicable for ELT/ESP task design. This thesis has drawn on Bachman’s (1990) dual notion of authenticity in conjunction with Halliday’s triad construct of context of situation (Halliday 1978) as a conceptual framework for the characterization of the authenticity manifested in the PBL task series under investigation. In the light of Bachman’s dual notion of authenticity (that for a task to be authentic, it has to achieve both situational and interactional authenticity), the present study, on the one hand, examines the design features of the case PBL tasks through documentary analysis of the project brief and semi-structured interviews with practitioners in the specific purpose field to ascertain the extent to which the designed tasks are situationally authentic, while on the other hand, investigates the authenticity of the learners’ interaction with the task features (i.e. the interactional authenticity) by eliciting the learners' accounts of their engagement with the tasks through retrospective focus group interviews, in conjunction with an analysis of the discourses produced by the learners in performing the tasks. The research findings show that task design is essentially the construction of a Context of Situation (CoS) which realizes situational authenticity of two different levels. An investigation into the interactional authenticity reveals both authentic and unauthentic aspects of the learners’ interaction with the constructed CoS, which has in turn shed light on a third level of authenticity to be added to the CoS model applicable for ELT/ESP task design.
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Schmidt, David Glenn. "Digital-high definition television servicing curriculum for Santa Ana Community College." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2202.
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The purpose of this project was to develop a semester length community college curriculum for a course in the theory and servicing of digital-high definition television for the students in the service technology field of electronics at Santa Ana Community College in Santa Ana, California. Additionally, it is designed with the current electronic service industry in mind.
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Masiewicz, Andrew Casimer. "Instructional designer's toolkit: A practical approach to the effective design of instruction." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2345.
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The purpose of the project was to develop a web-based instructional design tool. The tool provides guidelines, templates, and checklists to simplify the overall process, and give the designer a path to follow to help manage the instructional design project. It is based on the generalized model of Instructional Systems Design (ISD), but is applicable to the design of instructional materials for delivery by an instructor, by Computer-based Training (CBT), or a combination of instructor-led and technology-based delivery.
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Toten, Deborah Ann. "Childhood overweight and childhood obesity in fifth graders at Granite Hill Elementary School." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2181.
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The purpose of this study was to determine if the students in the 5th grade class at Granite Hill Elementary were overweight or obese. The research questions included: (a) Does the Granite Hill Elementary School population mirror the world wide trend of increasing childhood overweight and childhood obesity, and (b) how does the Granite Hill Elementary School population compare to the International Obesity Task Force standards?
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Patterson, Lachlan Joel. "A prototype goal oriented construction prototype management application for owners." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/51894.
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The construction industry has had difficulty adopting project management software effectively and in a widespread manner. This thesis seeks to uncover common problems preventing the adoption of new software for construction project management, and to find a method to design more successful software. Construction project managers working at universities in the state of Georgia were selected as the specific group to study. To better define the functions of project management software, as well as uncover benefits both realized and anticipated, research was conducted. A Situation Awareness based approach was selected to result in proposing a prototype application that would specifically match the mental model of the study group. To define the mental model, a Goal Directed Task Analysis method was used by way of an online survey and in-person verification. In order to collect the survey data, a web based Goal Directed Task Analysis application was created and tested as a part of this thesis. Using the survey data, a proposed design for a prototype application was proposed. The application design was specifically made to fulfill the needs of project managers like those in the study group. The GDTA method proved effective in producing a software design. Recommendations to create and test the proposed prototype application are provided as a next step.
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Wang, Huang, and Youwakim Nasr. "Task conflict handling styles between colleagues with bad personal relationship : The effect of relationship conflict on task conflict." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-39373.
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Interpersonal conflict is a research topic increasingly gaining importance in project management. The purpose of this exploratory study was to find out how relationship conflict affects task conflict in projects. The research investigated the styles individuals prefer to handle task conflict with colleagues in bad personal relationship. The influence of four personal characteristic variables (Gender, Age, Work experience and Culture background) on the choice of conflict handling styles were examined at the same time. ROCI-II was used as the data collection instrument. Questionnaires were published through web-based online survey system. 182 valid responses were collected in two weeks. Data was analyzed with statistic software SPSS. The results revealed that integrating, compromising, avoiding, dominating and obliging are the five styles ranked from highest to lowest preferred by individuals to handle task conflicts with colleagues in bad personal relationships. High value of assertiveness and negative value of cooperativeness indicated that in a situation of relationship conflict, individuals are more assertive and less cooperative to deal with task conflicts with colleagues. Results of the study didn't show significant difference among personal characteristic groups. High correlations among conflict handling styles were discovered from this study. Implications of the research findings for theoretical and practical organizations or individuals are provided. Areas and recommendations for future research are suggested.
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Theron, Louis Francois. "Personnel Allocation for Engineering Projects." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86295.
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Thesis (MEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The logical allocation of tasks in engineering offices currently relies heavily on the experience and intuition of project managers. In large scale projects the complexity of the task allocation procedure exceeds the capacity of human intuition, and a systematic technique is required to aid project managers in assigning tasks to individuals. In this project such a systematic technique is modelled and implemented using the Java programming language. An equation was developed to calculate an individual’s workload, and used in conjunction with other criteria to intelligently and systematically select an optimal individual to complete engineering tasks. The software solution is network-based, and also aims to aid project managers in various managerial duties.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die logiese toekenning van ingenieurstake steun tans swaar op die ervaring en aanvoeling van projek bestuurders. In grootskaalse projekte is die kompleksiteit van die taak toekenningsproses veel groter as die kapasiteit van menslike intuïsie. Dus word ‘n sistematiese proses wat projek-bestuurders kan help met die toeken van take aan individue vereis. In hierdie projek is so 'n sistematiese tegniek ontwikkel en geïmplementeer met behulp van die Java-programmeringstaal. 'n Vergelyking is ontwikkel om 'n individu se werklading te bereken en is in samewerking met ander kriteria gebruik om take intelligent en sistematies toe te ken. Die sagteware is network en databasis-gebaseerd en kan ook gebruik word om projek-bestuurders te help met verskeie bestuurspligte.