in regard to different structure of factors affective to personnel productivity in different organizations, this research is performed with the purpose of designing and fitness of conceptual model of personnel productivity using interpretive structure modeling in ferdowsi university of mashhad. the survey method and researcher-made questionaire was used for data collection in this research. the...

estimation of the conceptual costs in construction projects can be regarded as an important issue in feasibility studies. this estimation has a major impact on the success of construction projects. indeed, this estimation supports the required information that can be employed in cost management and budgeting of these projects. the purpose of this paper is to introduce an intelligent model to im...

Future internet systems have a number of properties supporting new innovative business and community systems. Event-driven architectures (EDA) providing varied information to support collaborative decision-making enable more decisions to be made closer to the problem owner. The "Internet of Things" (IoT) enables the Internet to reach out into the real world of physical objects. Mobile and colla...

Though rarely explicitly recognized, theory is an integral part of all biological research. Biologists’ theoretical and conceptual frameworks inform every step of their research, affecting what experiments they do, what techniques and technologies they develop and use, and how they interpret their data. An increased focus on the theoretical and conceptual component of biological research has th...

Conceptual modelling is a crucial software development activity for both Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. Each discipline, however, has developed its own techniques for conceptual modelling, and there is no agreement about a common set of techniques that can be used in both disciplines. This chapter will describe such techniques, paying special attention to the more recent and in...