.... With this approach, this paper assess which quality practices are associated to the likelihood of the firm being certified. Design/methodology/approach – This paper implemented non-parametric decision trees, in order to see which variables influence more the fact that the company be certified or not, i.e...

... of this paper is to present an intelligent CBM scheduling model for which incremental decision tree learning as an evolutionary system identification model and dynamic programming as a control model are developed. Design/methodology/approach To fully exploit the merits of CBM, this paper models CBM...