concerning the population growth and urban development, significant growth in the rate of personal car usage has caused more transportation and thus growth in occupying the street areas for parking vehicles. this has caused much transporting problems and traffic. hence concerning the parking issue is crucial in traffic and municipal management.the important issue is the suitable place for the p...

In a robust parameter design (RPD) problem, the experimenter is interested to determine the values of con-trol factors such that responses will be robust or insensitive to variability of the noise factors. Response sur-face methodology (RSM) is one of the effective methods that can be employed for this purpose. Since quality of products or processes is usually evaluated through several quality ...

Objective: In all societies, adolescents are the most vulnerable age group to addiction. Decision-making styles and attitude toward substances can play an important role in the tendency of adolescents to addiction. The aim of the current study was to investigate the role of decision-making styles and attitude toward substances in predicting the potential addiction among adolescents. Methods: I...

a characteristic of data envelopment analysis (dea) is to allow individual decision making units (dmus) to select the factor weights which are the most advantageous for them in calculating their efficiency scores. this flexibility in selecting the weights, on the other hand, deters the comparison among dmus on a common base. for dealing with this difficulty and assessing all the dmus on the sam...

a characteristic of data envelopment analysis (dea) is to allow individual decision making units (dmus) to select the factor weights that are the most advantages for them in calculating their efficiency scores. this flexibility in selecting the weights, on the other hand, deters the comparison among dmus on a common base. for dealing with this difficulty and assessing all the dmus on the same s...

a characteristic of data envelopment analysis (dea) is to allow individual decision making units (dmus) to select the factor weights which are the most advantageous for them in calculating their efficiency scores. this flexibility in selecting the weights, on the other hand, deters the comparison among dmus on a common base. for dealing with this difficulty and assessing all the dmus on the sam...

The Shortest Path (SP) problem resembles a variety of real-world situations where one needs to find paths between origins and destinations. A generalization the SP is Dynamic (DSP) problem, which also models changes in graph at any time. When changes, DSP algorithms partially recompute while taking advantage previous computations. Although represents many real situations, it leaves out some fun...

As the structure of modern organizations shifts, so correspondingly must the methodologies which underlie the evaluation and development of the security posture of their information systems. We have witnessed an ever-growing gap between organizational policy and technology. We have also witnessed an ever increasing complexity of decisions regarding the planning and design of IS security. Within...

Investment managers are multi-objective decision-makers (DMs) who make portfolio decisions by maximizing profits and minimizing risks over a multi-period planning horizon. Portfolio decisions are complex multi-objective problems which include both tangible and intangible factors. We propose an integrated multi-objective framework for project portfolio selection with respect to both the profits ...