one of the effective methods for improving the efficiency of an organization is benchmarking against successful organizations. not only benchmarking could be a technique for identifying problems but also it greatly helps managers in relations of the design of processes. among strategic and infrastructure industries in each country, the electricity industry is one of the most important and criti...

During the last years, there was rapid development in the world port industry which is considered to have resulted from the increase of universal trade. The key to the development of each port is its adaptability to the earliest developments and its resistance to the increasing competition. The influence zones of each port are characterised by instability, while each port authority aims at the ...

This paper presents a comparison of various recovery methods in terms of capacity efficiency with the underlying aim of reducing control plane load. In particular, a method where recovery requests are bundled towards the destination (Shortcut Span Protection) is evaluated can compared against traditional recovery methods. The optimization model is presented and our simulation results show that ...

Bilateral filtering is a simple, non-iterative scheme for texture removal and edge-preserving and noise-reducing smoothing filter. The intensity value at each pixel in an image is replaced by a weighted average of intensity values from nearby pixels. This weight is based on a Gaussian distribution. Thus noise is averaged and signal strength is preserved. Performance parameters of bilateral filt...

this research aims at presenting a consolidated model of data envelopment analysis (dea) technique and value engineering to select the best manufacturing methods for gate valve covers and ranking the methods using topsis.to do so, efficiency evaluation indices were selected based on the value engineering approach and different manufacturing methods were evaluated using dea technique.finally, ef...

today, banks, as intermediaries, seek to attract and allocate resources to obtain greater benefit. therefore, the bank assessment is considered as an important subject in the banking industry. data envelopment analysis is an effective technique in evaluating the efficiency of decision-making units. there are factors among banking indices (such as receivables from resource allocation) that are i...