this study tries to redesign the interior design of inter-city bus in order to fulfill needs of iranian user. the goal of this study is practically investigate how user centered design can be applied considering cultural needs of iranian user. by defining common needs between cultural and physical aspects of iranian user, the main focus was on improving the sitting condition of the traveler wit...

during the recent years the problem of job satisfaction has been the focus of management attention in most organizations. besides, managers have sought different ways to solve such problems by increasing wages and salaries, establishing a reward system and reorganization. among the new approaches, based on behavioral science, the redesign of jobs seems to have been the solution. the guestion is...

This paper develops the theory of mechanism redesign by which an auctioneer can reoptimize an auction based on bid data collected from previous iterations of the auction on bidders from the same market. We give a direct method for estimation of the revenue of a counterfactual auction from the bids in the current auction. The estimator is a simple weighted order statistic of the bids and has the...

Process redesign is an expensive, time consuming and labor-intensive activity. Analysis of the redesign process indicates the "first generation" computer-based tools are inadequate for redesign today. Knowledge-based systems and intelligent agents have the ability to address the key, intellectual activities required for effective process redesign. An intelligent redesign agent called KOPeR is d...

Software process redesign (SPR) is concerned with the development and application of concepts, techniques and tools for dramatically improving or optimizing software processes. This paper introduces how software process modeling, analysis and simulation may be used to support software process redesign. This includes an approach to explicitly modeling process redesign knowledge, analyzing proces...

KOPeR is developed to automate three key intellectual activities required for process redesign--process measurement, pathology diagnosis, and transformation matching. This KBS tool is used in the laboratory to redesign a commercial process from the reengineering literature and then employed in the field to redesign operational procurement processes in the context of an "industrial strength" ree...