The authors have been developing the automatic scheduling systems for software development project, which deliver scheduling and worker assignment. Their earlier works were designed to draw on crashing and fast tracking to produce countermeasure plans against process delay. However, process delay can be recovered not only by crashing or fast tracking but also by using holiday works. Their earli...

More than 600 local governments in the U.S. are developing climate action plans that lay out specific measures to reduce emissions from municipal operations, households and firms. To date, however, it is unclear whether these plans are being implemented or have any causal effects on emissions. Using data from California, I provide the first quantitative analysis of the impacts of climate plans....

Like other developing countries, Iranian cities are growing and expanding physically at a high speed. For about five decades, the only policy of the urban development plans in the field of urban growth management has been definition of the Urban Growth Boundary (U.G.B.) which is still used without any major modifications.Despite the slight evidences indicating the ineffectiveness of the current...

This chapter provides practical advice for developing a comprehensive assessment plan. Two examples from institutions that have created both individual and program-level assessment plans for leadership programs are shared.

extended abstract 1. introduction the united nations in the global conference on the sustainable development that was held in rio de janeiro in 2012 announced that the reform in management system to achieve the goals of sustainable development is essential as well as emphasizing on the use of the optimal management tools applications. the un until 2013 has been consistent with the operational m...

Spatial goals are becoming more frequent aspects of forest management plans as regulatory and organizational policies change in response to fi sheries and wildlife concerns. The combination of green-up constraints (harvesting restrictions that prevent the cutting of adjacent units for a specifi ed period of time) and habitat requirements for red-cockaded woodpeckers (RCW) in the southeastern U....

following the collapse of the soviet :union: and the discovery of gas and oil in central asia and caucasia, it faced complex interests in the international political economy. these problems were mainly rooted in developing plans of the countries for increasing their influence in the area and also in russia's connections with the iranian and turkish governments in the region. this paper inv...