Today, the country's banking system, according to the discussions to join the World Trade Organization is encountered with new challenges such as entry of foreign banks, emerging private banks and increasing the activities ...

Time series forecasting is an active research area that has drawn considerable attention for applications in a variety of areas. Forecasting accuracy is one of the most important features of forecasting models. Nowadays, ...

This paper addresses the problem of minimizing the sum of maximum earliness and tardiness on identical parallel machines scheduling problem. Each job has a processing time and a due date. Since this problem is trying to ...

Monte Carlo Simulation is a standard technique for project risk analysis. However, some assumptions of this technique are not reasonable in real world. When a project falls behind the schedule, managers take actions to ...

During implementation of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) in many organizations, it will be less attention to previous activities and capabilities which they extract from other improvement projects in the past and this ...

In recent decade, several methodologies and tools have been developed to undertake a risk analysis in order to prevent accidents in the process industries. Attempts have been made to study and compare these methods. However, ...

Nowadays considering suppliers benefits in the supply chain management strategies is one of the critical success factors for forming a long time and strategic relationship with suppliers. It is known as a "win-win strategy" ...

Consulting companies are encountered with many problems when they are supposed to generate a new document, e.g. a new Request For Proposal (RFP). They already have the building blocks of these new requests but they are ...