Human Factors, the so-called Soft Issues, play a vital role in highlighting the differencebetween success and failure for any project where people are involved, resistance tochange, both at a personal and organizational level, being one such factor. In this paper,we report the findings of two...

The task of developing software systems not only requires technological aspects but also, and moreimportantly, human aspects. Here, we argue that every software method/process ought to support thehuman aspects of software engineering, in terms of 'working teams', as well as the...

The role of maintenance in modern manufacturing is becoming ever more important, with companies adopting maintenance as a profit-generating business element. As a result, traditional terms used to describe maintenance such as “necessary evil” seem to be obsolete. It would appear that the aim...

Optimizing construction project scheduling has received a considerable amount of attention over the past 20 years. As a result, a plethora of methods and algorithms have been developed to address specific scenarios or problems. A review of the methods and algorithms that have been developed to...