Combination of AI/OR methods is gaining a great deal of attention because many combinatorial problems especially in planning and scheduling areas can be solved by means of combined AI/OR techniques. Many of these combinatorial problems can be expressed in a natural way as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). It is well known that a non-binary CSP can be transformed into an equivalent binary...

An algorithm called QUICKTREE is developed for finding a triangulation T of a given undirected graph G such that the size of T’s maximal clique is minimum and such that no other triangulation of G is a subgraph of T. We have tested QUICKTREE on graphs of up to 100 nodes for which the maximum clique in an optimal triangulation is of size 11. This is the first algorithm that can optimally triangu...

job satisfaction of nurses working in hospitals in zahedan purgaz a , nastiezaie n , hezare mogadam m received: 15 april, 2010 accepted: 27july, 2010 abstract background & aims: one of the most important elements of any organization especially health organizations is human resources. job satisfaction leads to being interested or disinterested. the present study aimed to determine the job satisf...

Workflow verification is an important aspect of workflow modeling where the verification task is to ensure that the workflow describes feasible processes. It has been shown that verifying nested workflows with extra precedence, causal, and temporal synchronization constraints is an NPcomplete problem and a verification method based on constraint satisfaction has been proposed. This paper theore...

objective: fertility plays an important role in sexual and psychological function in families. infertility can result in major emotional, social, and mental disorders, including a reduction in satisfaction with marital life and quality of life. the present study aimed to compare the quality of life and marital satisfaction and sexual satisfaction between fertile and infertile couples. materials...

introduction: stress is a psychological and physical burnout that produce objective or subjective problem for people. this investigation designed to study the relation between job stress and job satisfaction in sepah personnel. methods: the method of the study was descriptive and cross sectional. one hundred and forty six personnel were selected randomly from sepah in iran. the “jdi” (job descr...

background and objectives: services quality has become the major concern of policy-makers in the present rapidly growing consumer-oriented health industry. however, there is a major gap in the relevant literature in malaysia in this particular field. thus, this research attempted to narrow this gap by conducting a qualitative study to gain insight into quality of healthcare services in the mala...

objectives: the aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of psychotherapy based on acceptance and commitment therapy (act) on the subscales of marital satisfaction overall satisfaction, religious orientation, relations with children, sex, occasional conflicts, interpersonal conflicts and arrogance, by single case study in the spouses of veterans with spinal cord injuries. methods: par...

today, electronic banking has essential role in banking industry. challenges facing banking industry led to banks make to use electronic banking and delivery services and products throughout electronic banking. moreover, they are trying to understand their customers' needs and everyday increase service quality throughout electronic banking. this research tries to investigate effect of cust...

background despite the paramount importance of the patient’s satisfaction, there are limited data on mothers’ satisfaction with the nursing care provided to their children in iranian clinical settings. objectives this study aimed to evaluate mothers’ satisfaction with two systems of providing care to their hospitalized children. patients and methods this research was a two-group quasi-experimen...