The aim of this study was to develop an optimal sustainable forest plantation based on goal programming and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methods. This study was carried out in Guilan province, north of Iran. First of all, the ecological capability of the study area for plantation establishment/maintenance was evaluated based on multi-factor method and specific ecological Makhdoum Model by ...

Interest in object-otiented analysis (OOA) and object-oriented design (OOD) has increased over the last several years. Proponents of OOA and OOD have called the shift to these methods “revolutionary” and have cited a number of impressive claims with respect to their use. However, empirical research investigating these claims remains in its infancy. Moreover, an examination of the literature rev...

As a tracking technology, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is now widely applied to enhance the context awareness of enterprise information systems. Such awareness provides great opportunities to facilitate business process automation and thereby improve operation efficiency and accuracy. With the aim to incorporate business logics into RFID-enabled applications, this book chapter addresse...

(2010) Value-oriented process modeling : integrating financial perspectives into business process redesign. Abstract Purpose – Financial information about costs and return on investments are of key importance to strategic decision-making but also in the context of process improvement or business engineering. In this paper we propose a value-oriented approach to business process modeling based o...

Software Product Lines (SPL) and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) are two emerging approaches to the software development currently receiving great attention both in research and in practice. Our work suggests an approach to transfer the main peculiarities of the SPL (i.e. asset reuse and variation mechanisms) to the SOA systems development, in order to realize a SOA systems line. In this w...

Software development process is on the basis of two important steps each of which has to be taken seriously, system requirement analysis and system modeling. There have been many different approaches in the literature that has their own strengths and weaknesses to tackle these two important steps, however, there is none comprehensive approach. Among them, formal methods by using their mathemati...