abstract health economic evaluation research plays an important role in selecting cost-effective interventions. the purpose of this study was to assess the quality of published articles in iranian journals related to economic evaluation in health care programs based on drummond’s checklist in terms of numbers, features, and quality. in the present review study, published articles (persian and e...

one of the main problems in the quality control of rivers is the high control cost imposed upon pollutant units. the cooperative policy approach in the treatment process between two or more pollutant units is a new and economic perspective in the environmental management of catchment basins. origins of large amounts pollutants which require a high cost to control pollution are trying to start p...

Estimation by Analogy (EBA) is an increasingly active research method in the area of software engineering. The fundamental assumption of this method is that the similar projects in terms of attribute values will also be similar in terms of effort values. It is well recognized that the quality of software datasets has a considerable impact on the reliability and accuracy of such method. Therefor...

Data quality issues become more and more critical for information systems in all sizes of organizations. This paper attempts to reveal whether different sized organizations consider the importance and performance of critical success factors for data quality in accounting information system differently. It presents results from a largescaled Australian survey on Australia CPA members. The One-Wa...

In order to overcome the perverse incentives of excessive maintenance reductions and insufficient network investments arising with incentive regulation of electricity distribution companies, regulators throughout Europe have started regulating service quality. In this paper, we explore the impact of incorporating customers’ willingness-to-pay for service quality in benchmarking models on cost e...

With the growth in the number of Cloud Service Providers, many enterprises and organizations are now able to use multiple Cloud platforms in order to achieve improved overall Quality of Service (QoS), reliability and cost efficiency. However, due to the diversity in architecture and functionalities among different Cloud platforms, it is difficult to build a system that simultaneously manages mu...

From the abstraction point and the entrance of water in a Water System (WS) till its discharge back to the environment, water passes through a number of treatments and uses that directly affect its quality. The water quality changes several times while the water returning to the environment at a discharge point into the sea, a lake or a river has poorer quality compared to the water entering th...

water quality trading (wqt) is a novel framework for surface water quality management. this research studies the optimal waste load allocation (wla) in regard based on bod parameter in downstream of sefidrud river. for this purpose, the river is simulated by qual2kw software and the total maximum daily loads (tmdls) required are determined. the impact factors of pollutes are also specified usin...

one of the most important issues in the management of production is select the best option for each production activity, so that the time and cost of production is minimal and quality is the maximum. considering to the large number of activities and options for each activity, usually, this choice does not have a unique solution and can be used the utility function and assign weights to time, co...