laid down by the experts who contribute to the volume. " The best is the enemy of the good," and what is needed for the practitioner in India is a clear statement of the best methods of diagnosis and treatment which it is practicable for him to carry out, rather than an account of the methods which are followed by highly specialised practitioners working under the conditions that prevail in Lon...

We examine the problem of building or fortifying a network to defend against enemy attacks in various scenarios. In particular, we examine the case in which an enemy can destroy any portion of any arc that a designer constructs on the network, subject to some interdiction budget. This problem takes the form of a three-level, two-player game, in which the designer acts first to construct a netwo...

experiment-based report of imam ali (peace upon him) to be knowing god lead to revoke the out goings and opening the shuttings is a new way in theology. encountering the commentators of nahj-al-balaghah with this narration is the current / present research’s matter. they define and comprise their common and different status in understanding imam ali’s (peace be upon him) speeches. they analize ...

My context for this note is natural language interfaces to complex systems, considered, as the aim is system building, from the system's point of view. I hold that the discourse model relates four other models that are all required in dialog, but which need to be distinguished. These other models, as I define them in this note, are the world model, the user model, the system model, and the text...

the so-called “third world” has often experienced modernity and its version of the “city” in some of their most grotesque forms where iran has not been an exception. in other words, north-atlantic powers have historically played the midwife for a father-figure-like modernity and its “third world” concubines, the result of which has been the birth of “monstrosities” of all kinds. focusing mainly...