Background and Objectives: Prioritizing the services to be outsourced is a crucial challenge toward efficient outsourcing of health services. In spite of fruitful efforts in improving the outsourcing process, there still remains room and need for developing more systematic approaches. The present paper introduces a novel multi-criteria decision making model based on the fuzzy a...

in the present study, a number of iranian it professionals and electronic commerce managers are surveyed in order to investigate their viewpoints about the level of importance for determinant factors affecting the generation of trust among the internet consumers. to accomplish this, a model, which is adopted from the existing models in the e-trust literature, is offered to represent the crucial...

Traffic state estimation and prediction are fundamental requirements for automatic control of urban road traffic with both adaptive traffic lights and variable message signs. For that, collecting of actual traffic data is necessary. This paper deals with the combined application of principal components analysis (PCA) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) for the specification of the needed nu...

this research work attempts to compare the legal and technical criteria of locating household and municipal landfills and discuss them along with legal and technical principles. for this purpose, it was attempted to discuss and compare the related most important national an international standards. due to say, employing the legal standards of locating household and municipal landfills in corpo...

this research work attempts to compare the legal and technical criteria of locating household and municipal landfills and discuss them along with legal and technical principles. for this purpose, it was attempted to discuss and compare the related most important national an international standards. due to say, employing the legal standards of locating household and municipal landfills in corpor...

In the context of economy globalization, the need for globally distributed negotiations involving a high number of negotiators communicating through the Internet becomes an important business issue. In such negotiations, the amount of information describing the negotiation process is too high to be easily understood by humans. In this paper, a negotiation support model adapted to highly concurr...