This paper proposes a novel optimization technology called deployment time optimization and presents several examples where the proposed technology can improve the performance of distributed applications. Using the configuration information collected from the target operation environment of an application, the proposed optimization approach tries to deploy only necessary components and best alt...

To improve the market competitiveness of enterprises in the manufacturing industry, some of them involve picking the most appropriate strategies among multiple available alternatives. However, no single alternative works is suitable for all evaluation criteria which must be considered during the selection processes. This paper proposes a new hybrid MCDM method using design of experiment (DoE) a...

This article proposes a modeling approach for handling spatial heterogeneity present in the study of the geographical pattern of deaths due to cerebrovascular disease.The framework involvesa point pattern analysis with components exhibiting spatial variation. Preliminary studies indicate that mortality of this disease and the effect of relevant covariates do not exhibit uniform geographic distr...

In recent years, Web Caching has been considered one of the key areas to improve web usage efficiency. However, caching web objects proposes many considerations about the validity of the cache. Ideally, it would be valuable to have a consistent cache, where no invalid relationships among objects are held. Several alternatives have been offered to keep consistency in the web cache, each one bein...

Selecting the appropriate manufacturing machine is a very important and complex problem for firms which usually have to deal with both qualitative and quantitative criteria and involve different decision makers whose knowledge is often vague and imprecise. This paper proposes a peer-based modification to intuitionistic fuzzy multi-criteria group decision making with TOPSIS method (peer IF-TOPSI...

1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Imam Ali Cardiovascular Centre, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran. 3Yazd Cardiovascular Research Centre, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Islamic Republic of Iran ...

Touraj Banirostam, Kamal Mirzaie, Mehdi N. Fesharaki Department of Computer Engineering, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, IRAN Email: [email protected] Department of Computer Engineering, Maybod Branch, Islamic Azad University, IRAN Email: [email protected] Department of Computer Engineering, Science and research Branch, Islamic Azad University, IRAN Email: fesharak...

1 Department of Computer, Firoozkooh branch, Islamic Azad University, Firoozkooh, Iran 2 Department of Mathematics, Firoozkooh branch, Islamic Azad University, Firoozkooh, Iran Manaf Sharifzadeh1 and Shokrollah Ziari 2* Iranian Journal of Optimization Volume 8, Issue 2, 2016, 79-86 Research Paper Islamic Azad University Rasht Branch E-ISSN:2008-5427 Online version is available on: www.ijo.iaura...

The purpose of this exploratory study is to introduce the concept of Islamic E-health. The study defines Islamic E-health and discusses various applications of this concept. Data collection methods used for the study included interviews, Facebook, Google, and iTunes searches using a variety of Islamic E-health-related terms. The results show that some Islamic E-health applications focus primari...