Table of Contents

Fundamentals of Cost Estimating.

Activity-Based Costing and Traditional Cost AllocationStructures.

Statistical Techniques in Cost Estimation.

Discounted Cash Flow Analysis.

Learning Curves and Progress Functions.

Detailed Cost Estimating.

Parametric Estimating.

Risk Analysis for Cost/Schedule/Technical Performance.

Design to Cost.

Construction Cost Estimating.

Cost Estimating in Manufacturing.

Cost Implications of Systems/Concurrent Engineering.

Aspects Affecting Cost Estimation in Government Procurement.

Computer-Aided Cost Estimating.

The Software Acquisition Process.

Software Development Effort Estimating.

Software Life Cycle Cost Estimation.

Artificial Intelligence in Cost Estimating.

Cost Estimating as a Profession.

Dictionary of Estimating Terms.

Index.

About the Author

RODNEY D. STEWART is President of Mobile Data Services, and seniorstaff consultant for Science Applications International Corporation(SAIC) and Computer Systems Technology. He has served as projectengineer and project manager with the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration, and as manager of the cost analysis office inthe Systems Analysis and Integration Laboratory of NASA's George C.Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He is a pastnational president and past national policy director of theNational Estimating Society, and a certified cost estimator/analyst(CCE/A).

RICHARD M. WYSKIDA, PhD, is Professor of Industrial and SystemsEngineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Hisresearch has involved the minimization of system cost via theoptimization techniques of operations research. He is a seniormember of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, a member ofINFORMS, a member of the American Society for EngineeringEducation, and a registered professional engineer in the state ofAlabama.

JAMES D. JOHANNES, PhD, is Dean of the School of Graduate Studiesand Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alabama inHuntsville. He has served as principal investigator on numerouscomputer software projects during the past twenty years at theUniversity. His professional affiliations include the AmericanAssociation for Artificial Intelligence, the Association forComputer Machinery, and the IEEE Computer Society.