in studying through simulation, choosing an appropriate tool/language would be a difficult task because many of them are available. on the other hand, few research works focus on evaluation of simulation tools/languages and their comparison. this paper makes a couple of evaluations and ranks more than fifty simulation tools that are currently available. the first evaluation and ranking is in th...

conclusions: marital age, and socioeconomic status had a direct association, and hopefulness and marital satisfaction had an indirect one with iranian women’s decision for timing motherhood. therefore, this is the responsibility of policy-makers and healthcare providers to advise women by providing appropriate interventions and facilities. results: the results revealed that among direct pathway...

While there are many purported benefits of agile software development, use of these methods often has a significant impact on project coordination and information management, particularly where large, distributed teams are concerned. Effective coordination requires easily accessible, preferably structured information that is typically unavailable. In this paper we present a comprehensive argume...

Maps are often used as decision support tools in both, desktop geographic information systems (GIS) and mobile GIS environments. The decision support capabilities of current location-based services (LBS) are limited to navigation support and database querying with no analytic evaluation of the attractiveness of alternative destinations being offered. This chapter demonstrates how LBS can be ext...

A great deal of new knowledge and research material have been generated from research carried out under the auspices of the European Union (EU). However, only a small amount has been made available as practical policy-support tools. In this paper, we describe how EU funded research models and understanding have been integrated into an interactive decision-support system addressing physical, eco...