The purpose of this paper is to present the results of preliminary analysis and research on the potential relevance and applicability of autonomic computing principles and practices to problems unique to e-government. This paper examines the applicability of autonomic computing principles to four main egovernment problems thought to be potential candidates for autonomic computing practices. The...

background: the integrated educational system and service provision have involved the managers of iranian universities of medical sciences in different tasks and limited their access to adequate information for decision making. hence, it seems to be vital to adopt plans in order to provide necessary information for decision making. the current study was carried out to define the role of researc...

This research is situated within the field of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) and asks if ICT use can make learning practices change. While constructive learning practices are critical to both individual and societal development, repetitive learning practices are the norm in many developing countries. The study is based on observations and in-depth interviews ...

tthe study area included parts of the villages in behabad, of bafq county, yazd province, and pool research was conducted in 2008 and 2009. research findings show that rural workers and islamic councils have relatively been successful in development of rural entrepreneurship, and local people believe that entrepreneurs, officials, experts and local commentators, islamic council and rural worker...

Context: Scientists have become increasingly reliant on software in order to perform research that is too time-intensive, expensive, or dangerous to perform physically. Because the results produced by the software drive important decisions, the software must be correct and developed efficiently. Various software engineering practices have been shown to increase correctness and efficiency in the...

Background and Objectives: The aim of this study was prediction of risky behaviors based on psychosocial development and perceived parenting practices of parents in high school students. Method: The study design was descriptive correlational type and the statistical population included of all high school students of Astara city that through them 200 subjects w...

Multi-core architectures comprising several GPUs have become mainstream in the eld of High-Performance Computing. However, obtaining the maximum performance of such heterogeneous machines is challenging as it requires to carefully o oad computations and manage data movements between the di erent processing units. The most promising and successful approaches so far rely on task-based runtimes th...

This paper shows an overview of a research project for integrating formal methods in popular practices for software development in México. The article shows only the main results from the survey about methods and practices and an overview of the initial proposal of practices applying lightweight formal methods to requirements specification and software modelling. Keywords— requirements specific...

the role of franchising for business growth, job creation, and economic development has been widely recognized around the world. to our knowledge, however, no research has been conducted to investigate franchise practices in iran. the purpose of this study was to investigate franchisor franchisee relationship and franchisees’ buying behavior using structural equation modeling, in tehran provinc...