1Department of Community Medicine, Sari Medical School, Sari, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to N. Motamed: [email protected]). 2Department of Biostatistics, Shiraz School of Public Health, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. 3Department of Community Medicine, Shiraz Medical School, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received: 24/03/03; accepted: 18/02/04 ABSTRACT To assess the validity...

The PROMETHEE is a significant method for evaluating alternatives with respect to criteria in multi-criteria decision-making problems. It is characterized by many types of preference functions that are used for assigning the differences between alternatives in judgements. This paper proposes a preference of green suppliers using the PROMETHEE under the usual criterion preference functions. Comp...

In this article the author explains the social role of Muslim woman in a postmodern society through a public symbol of her identity--the veil. The article's thesis is that the Muslim women's manifestation of their Islamic denomination through veiling and wearing appropriate clothes (in the case of men through growing beards and wearing clothes considered appropriate for them) signifies an expre...

#1 Dept. of Statistics, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh, Phone no. +8801718698811 #2 Dept. of Statistics, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh, Phone no. +8801716657066 #3 Dept. of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Phone no. +8801711145041 ABSTRACT In a recent year, classification is computer implemented and most popular data mining technique. Thus in th...

This paper proposes Hybrid Intelligent Water Drops (HIWD) algorithm to solve Tamhidi programs uncapacitated examination timetabling problem in Universiti Sains Islamic Malaysia (USIM). Intelligent Water Drops algorithm (IWD) is a population-based algorithm where each drop represents a solution and the sharing between the drops during the search lead to better drops. The results of this study pr...

This article proposes a framework to model and reason on what we call multi-calendar appointment scheduling problems. Multicalendar appointment scheduling problems such as planning a phone conference of three persons in France, Tunisia, and Japan refer to various temporal conditions, involving arbitrary calendric types such as months (Islamic months are defined differently from Gregorian months...

This article offers an anthropological outline of immanent critique in Islamic traditions. In addressing the question – what is immanent critique? – it dwells on the interrelationships amongst the Enlightenment’s notion of reason, critique, and Islam. My main contention is that to construe the Western notion of critique derived from Enlightenment’s specific conceptualization of reason as critiq...

This paper proposes Hybrid Intelligent Water Drops (HIWD) algorithm to solve Tamhidi programs uncapacitated examination timetabling problem in Universiti Sains Islamic Malaysia (USIM). Intelligent Water Drops algorithm (IWD) is a population-based algorithm where each drop represents a solution and the sharing between the drops during the search lead to better drops. The results of this study pr...