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Cost Engineering for the Future Business Environment

2000· article· en· W1849602787 on OpenAlexaff
Brian Hilton, Andrew Williamson

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Parametrics · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicManufacturing Process and Optimization
Canadian institutionsRoyal Military College of Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCost estimateCost engineeringRisk analysis (engineering)Forcing (mathematics)Competition (biology)Relevant costProduct cost managementProduct (mathematics)Cost accountingFocus (optics)Computer scienceIndustrial organizationBusinessSystems engineeringEngineering

Abstract

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Changes in both the political environment leading to reductions in defence budgets, and the commercial environment, with competition creating cost pressures, are forcing companies to concentrate upon reducing cost throughout a product's lifecycle. This focus is especially important during design and development, because of greater pressures on costs and margins and the introduction of new management ideas and technical processes. As well as increasing requirements on the estimators, there are also increasing requirements on the information used by the estimators. This is because the cost models will demand new approaches to information management, beyond the provision of historical cost information, which remains the basis of cost information used today.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.033

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.203
Teacher spread0.191 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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