This paper deals with the economic evaluation of industrial projects. Some traditional techniques, which have been used by practicing managers or advocated by academics, become questionable in the face of modern developments in finance theory. The objective of this paper is to examine how these modern developments in finance theory are applied to project evaluation. The paper is divided into tw...

Dear Editor Program directors need to evaluate educationalprograms to ensure their quality (1). The resultsof a survey conducted in Tehran University ofMedical Sciences (TUMS) in early 2012 showedthat program evaluation was not an establishedprocess in the majority of schools. It was at besta stand-alone project focusing on a single courseor a particular component of it with no structuredfollow...

Projects scheduling by the project portfolio selection, something that has its own complexity and its flexibility, can create different composition of the project portfolio. An integer programming model is formulated for the project portfolio selection and scheduling.Two heuristic algorithms, genetic algorithm (GA) and simulated annealing (SA), are presented to solve the problem. Results of cal...

in recent years, information has become a major consideration in making financial decisions. in this paper there methods of project evaluation under inflationary conditions are descried and compared. the three methods are: i• gross profit per unit approach 2• current price each now 3• fixed price (real) cach flow in section ii of the paper different conditions under which all three approaches y...

The objectives of IT projects are presented. The quality requirements that these projects must fulfill are established. Quality and evaluation indicators for running IT projects are built and verified. Project quality characteristics are presented and discussed. Model refinement for IT project metrics is treated and a software structure is proposed. For an IT project which is designed for softw...

It is the software enterprises’ project actuation that makes it more difficult to evaluate project managers than the research and development personnel relatively. Based on the job analysis of project managers in enterprises, this article selects the performance indicators of project managers, and then evaluates the evaluation results through the analytic hierarchy process and weighted average ...

many organizations use information technology (it) to improve their performance in the business and operations. but, most of the it projects suffer from a high risk of failure when implemented. recently, many studies have been attended on the concept of critical success factors (csfs) in order to affect the rate of success, but a little effort has been focused on developing strong models to fac...

This paper reports on a complex educational development project aimed at improving the evaluation of student learning in teaching activities supported by new technologies. The acknowledged shortcomings in this area were addressed by a staff development programme which assisted participants to develop and carry out an evaluation plan with the help of a mentor. Twenty evaluation studies were unde...