in the developed countries, many organizations are regarded as knowledge-based businesses in which knowledge management is necessary. today, this science is changing into integral activity of business in organizations. one of the concerns of knowledge management is its implementation.many companies and organizations which try to start knowledge management don’t ensure that the best approach is ...

This paper summarises the impact of major earthquakes, 2010–2011, on Christchurch’s water supply network and what recovery measures have been applied, what worked well, what did not and why. A number of issues related to the open nature of the Christchurch water supply network were identified during earthquakes. It was difficult to manage large water supply pressure zones during the post-earthq...

the share of dc-based renewable energy resources (rers) and electricity storage systems are increasing due to developments of smart grid technologies. moreover, the share of dc-based load has rapid growth due to significant developments of power electronic technologies. therefore, a more flexible power system is required for efficient integration of emerging loads and generators. in this paper,...

the increasing amount of scientific collaboration has led to an increase  in the quality of scientific publications. the goal of this article is to analyze the co-authorship patterns and networks in sbums’s scientific publications in wos from 2009 to 2013. hence, the co-authorship indicators and ratio of national to international collaborations are determined. this research is a descriptive sur...

in this paper we propose a method for solving some well-known classes of lane-emden type equations which are nonlinear ordinary differential equations on the semi-in nite domain. the proposed approach is based on an unsupervised combined arti cial neural networks (ucann) method. firstly, the trial solutions of the differential equations are written in the form of feed-forward neural networks co...

the network design problem (ndp) is one of the important problems in combinatorial optimization. among the network design problems, the multicommodity capacitated network design (mcnd) problem has numerous applications in transportation, logistics, telecommunication, and production systems. the mcnd problems with splittable flow variables are np-hard, which means they require exponential time t...

in recent decades artificial neural networks (anns) have shown great ability in modeling and forecasting non-linear and non-stationary time series and in most of the cases especially in prediction of phenomena have showed very good performance. this paper presents the application of artificial neural networks to predict drought in yazd meteorological station. in this research, different archite...