The importance of ICT to all aspects of university business cannot be overemphasised. However the devolved nature of university management, and particularly of research, results in tensions between the central university ICT services (including elearning), striving to provide resilient and cost-effective services for all, and the academic communities that need agile and leading-edge ICTs to ser...

rural sustainable development is one the most important components of achievement to sustainable development in a national scale which is not doable without using an efficient management. therefore, recognizing the problems ahead of local management in the scale of various geographical regions of the country and attempting to solve them by using proper course of actions could be instrumental. i...

Configuration management is an important aspect of an efficient development process. As with other aspects of software development, configuration management happens in the presence of social and organizational constraints. The various goals of configuration management (stability, developer independence and interaction, etc.) sometimes conflict with each other. This paper presents three configur...

The paper deals with the Computer-Aided Tolerancing and Product Data Management. It is especially focus on data and knowledge management system to support and improve the tolerancing tasks in product development process. The first part of the paper introduces an overview about the recent developments related to tolerancing supports and data management systems. Based on a literature survey and i...

Urban management in any context has a different economic, social and political structure, which is in harmony with the existing models of organization. In spite of these differences, in order to reach a sustainable urban development, several different conferences should be referred to. In the “Brundtland Commission 1987” about urban sustainable development these definitions have been given: “pr...

Abstract The main objective in this article is to study the issue of development and lasting competitiveness and to study its dimensions and also to acquainted with its related components and how to achieve it. In fact, to get acquainted with competitiveness is as a development that would prevent imposition of cultural, Economical, and social and/or environment damages on future generations. ...

since every society requires a unique pattern based upon its dominant values for multi dimensional development and, ayatollah, khomeini as the great founder of a holy islamic community has realized the first practical experience of development administration thru islamic values, a survey has been carried out about ayatollah khomeini's viewpoints on development administration with respect t...

extended abstract 1. introduction the united nations in the global conference on the sustainable development that was held in rio de janeiro in 2012 announced that the reform in management system to achieve the goals of sustainable development is essential as well as emphasizing on the use of the optimal management tools applications. the un until 2013 has been consistent with the operational m...

The ICONS (Intelligent CONtent management System) project objectives and contribution to the current state of the knowledge management field is presented. The project represents an ongoing international research effort funded by the European IST research programme. An important aspect of the project is the fact that its inception and the technological platform are based on the industrial softwa...