one of the most crucial elements of each country is electricity distribution networks (edn). awareness of accidents in edn could be very important in the conservation and utilization of them. the accurate and periodic inspections can provide a good service to subscribers. the goal of this project is to fabricate a quad rotor, which can do an accurate and a periodic inspection. the design and im...

This paper proposes a bi-objective reliable supply chain network design that immunizes the network against different sources of uncertainties. In this regard, scenario based stochastic programming method is applied to model different disruption scenarios affecting accurate performance of network stages. Also, reliable and unreliable facilities are suggested for lessening vulnerability of networ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of an integrated, clinician-focused telehealth monitoring system on the probability of hospitalization within the first 30-day episode of home healthcare. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective, nonexperimental design. METHODS The study sample includes 2009 data from 5873 Medicare beneficiaries receiving home healthcare services through a network of community-based home ...

Research on design of IT traditionally treats the production of scholarly knowledge and the design of new systems as related, but separate processes. We propose the fruitfulness of practicing a closer relation informed by interventionist design research (appreciating a problem through attempts at solving it) and actor network theory (reality is enacted and constructed through our engagement). T...

With the growing complexity and scale of future Internet of Things (IoT) applications, there is a need for effectively exploring associated design spaces. IoT applications make use of inherently distributed processing. In such networksof-systems (NoS), computation and communication is tightly coupled. Traditional design of networks and systems in isolation ignores how choices in one influence t...

Network design problem is one of the most complicated and yet challenging problems in transportation planning. The Bi-level, non-convex and integer nature of network design problem has made it into one of the most complicated optimization problems. Inclusion of time dimension to the classical network design problem could add to this complexity. In this paper an Ant Colony System (ACS) has been ...

The research effort for a national e-Health interconnection infrastructure and for the needs of supporting design guidelines is in great demand. Additional researches in eHealthcare network services are critical to universal deployment in operational and security service management aspects. This paper presents our solution framework for e-Healthcare interconnection infrastructure, operational m...