Nowadays, project selection is a vital decision in many organizations. Because competition among research projects in order to gain more budgets and to attain new scientific domain has increased. Due to multiple objectives and budgeting restrictions for academic research projects have led to the use of expert system for decision making by academic and research centers. The existing methods suff...

We study university projects and research collaboration projects with industry that are supported by government grants. First, we propose a theoretical model to analyze optimal decisions in these ventures. Second, we test our theoretical results with a unique dataset containing academic publications and collaborative research funds for all the academics at the major engineering departments in t...

Since Iijima discovered carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in 1991, many unique physical and electrical properties of CNTs have gradually been uncovered. CNTs have exceptionally high Youngâ€TMs modulus, stiffness and flexibility, and are electrically conductive with a greater diamagnetic susceptibility than graphite. Carbon nanotubes are pseudo-one-dimensional carbon allotropes of high aspect ratio, high ...