in this research, a new method for market-product strategic planning is presented. in this method, an expert system is designed on the basis of identifying important factors that are effective in a firm and analyzing the logical relations between them. the objective is to develop a decision support system (dss) for helping managers to make strategic decisions. dds can serve as suitable replacem...

The Mashhad drug and poison information center (MDPIC) was officially established in 2000 to provide up-to-date information on medications. The objective of this study is to provide an epidemiologic profile of drug inquiry and poisoning-related phone calls to MDPIC from 2007 to 2017. This article is a descriptive retrospective study in which all inquiries about drugs and poisoning cases receive...

This essay explores research characteristics beyond those of rigor or relevance to propose a framework that will make information systems (IS) research more valuable to its stakeholders. The value of IS research ought to be measured by its originality, how well it addresses the needs of its sociological and discursive environment, the extent the research makes evident what is hidden, and how cl...

Rough set theory is a new mathematical approach to imperfect knowledge. It was proposed by Pawlak in 1981. The benefit of rough set theory in data analysis is that it can easily find the reducts using approximations without need any preliminary or additional information about data. The proposed approach provides efficient algorithms for deducting unseen patterns in data. Due to this reason, we ...

Here are many situations in real applications of decision making where we deal with uncertain conditions.  Due to the different sources of uncertainty,  since its original definition of fuzzy sets in 1965 cite{zadeh1965},  different generalizations and extensions of fuzzy sets have been introduced: Type-2 fuzzy sets cite{6,13}, Intuitionistic fuzzy sets cite{1}, fuzzy multi-sets cite{37} and et...