the natural result of the application of modernization approach in developing countries is the formation and development of large-scale migration from rural to urban areas. this has changed the sex structure of population in a number of rural settlements in the country. as the current situation maintains, it is clear that women will be the main beneficiaries of the development plans in rural ar...

due to easy availability of cheaper raw material and increase in new applications, the use of polyolefins in variousindustries is becoming a major priority. the middle east region, on account of its vast oil and gas reserves has,in the last decade or so, been developing many new petrochemical complexes with their expansion into colossalpolyolefin production capacities. the predictions are that ...

after the war with iraq which ended in 1988, iran implemented several agricultural support policies based on five-year national development plans. the main objective of these plans in the agriculture sector was to make the agricultural economy more market-oriented and to encourage sustainable agriculture. this paper investigates the extent to which iran's government has been able to achieve thi...

We apply the cognitive architecture SEMLINCS to model multi-agent cooperations in a Super Mario game environment. SEMLINCS is a predictive, self-motivated control architecture that learns conceptual, event-oriented schema rules. We show how the developing, general schema rules yield cooperative behavior, taking into account individual beliefs and environmental context. The implemented agents ar...

We are interested in developing multi-agent systems that can provide real-time performance guarantees for critical missions that require cooperation. In particular, we are developing methods for teams of CIRCA agents to build coordinated plans that include explicit runtime communications to support distributed realtime reactivity to the environment. These teams can build plans in which differen...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The case covers key issues in information technology project management. It deals with developing a full set of project plans, including milestones, tasks, schedules, staffing, deliverables, and projected costs, for a complex software development project (Gido & Clements, 2003; Kerzner, 2003; Schwalbe, 2002). The essence of this case is the analyzing of a specific organization...

A complex approach to geodiversity and landscape in order foster geoconservation develop geotourism geoeducation is usually more effective than isolated protection promotion of geoheritage sites without wider context. Geodiversity Action Plan (GAP) represents a reasonable tool for how follow these goals cooperation with local stakeholders. This specific document not focused only on an inventory...