iraq market is a suitable and valuable market for the iranian companies considering its high facilities for exporting products. but no local model was offered to evaluate and promote the export performance of the companies. this research is done with the objective to “present local model for promoting the export performance of iranian companies”. using exploratory factor analysis, forty five cr...

increasing non-oil exporting is among the most important concerns for iran. software industry is among the knowledge based and profitable ones. identification of factors affecting export performance of software developers can improve planning that in turn results in increasing software export. in this research a model consisting of seven important variables in software industries including: com...

This paper proposes a novel method to characterize the performance of autonomous agents in the Trading Agent Competition for Supply Chain Management (TAC-SCM). We create benchmarking tools that manipulate market environments to control the conditions under which we test trading agents. Using these tools, we show how developers can inspect their agents and unveil behaviors that might otherwise h...

As the title suggests, this paper compares two “formula” or mechanical investment techniques, dollar cost averaging and a relatively new proposal, value averaging, to a form of random investing to determine if any technique yields superior investment performance. Results indicate that value averaging does provide superior expected investment returns when investment prices are quite volatile and...