Dynamic coordination for task allocation in disaster environments under spatial and communicational constraints is a challenging issue in both research and applications. To this end, this paper presents a coordinated task allocation approach for disaster environments by considering spatial and communicational constraints, dynamic features of environments as well as heterogenous capabilities of ...

digital and information technologies are fundamental factors for all organizations which carry out organizational and social activities levels and it causes to change the nature of business. create what is a type of entrepreneurship that is extracted from the concept of entrepreneurship. digital and information technology is one of electronic style of this creation. therefore, it can be said th...

Communication and cooperation among stakeholders and developers is a critical factor for success in requirements engineering [1], [2]. Usually studies in this field just point to the problems, but a comprehensive set of tools or techniques for improvement of communication skills is not given. This study contains summary of research in which the authors use serious games approach [3], [4] for st...

Sustainable agricultural and rural development requires knowledge and information, skills, attitudes and technologies, which run through a network of actors to produce, distribute and use it in a particular place. The model of the Agriculture Knowledge and Information Systems (AKIS) is designed based on this recognition. In Iran, There are about decades of experience in the development of this ...

Issues related to a “skills” strategy, or perhaps more accurately a “high skills” strategy, appear to be near the top of the public policy agenda. Internationally, for example, the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, indicated recently that he was “very much focused on the problems that arise for productivity and social cohesion if there is not a sufficient opportunity f...

Ability of managers and other nonproduction professionals is key for the productivity of firms. Hence, the assignment of heterogeneous nonproduction workers across firms determines the distribution of productivity. In turn, the transmission of productivity differences into profit differences — resulting from product market competition — determines firms’ willingness to pay for higher managerial...