Multi-Disciplinary Engineering (MDEng) environments involve a wide range of models, processes and tools that were not designed to cooperate together. The Ontology-Based Information Integration (OBII) approach has been proposed to address the integration issue within such environments. However, knowledge changes management and analysis (KCMA) process within the environment are not covered within...

Although changes have proven to be one of the crucial causes of project deviations, this topic is relatively poorly discussed in the literature. This paper presents research whose goal was to examine how changes can be prevented, and how to reduce their negative impact. Theoretical research examined risk management and change management. The developed model was verifi ed after conducting empiri...

In this article, the author investigates the nature of complexity and its role in project failure. Also, the paper proposes a model to assess complexity. It draws some conclusions about the implications for change management interventions. The author finds that projects fail when the complexity exceeds the capability of the organisation to cope. The overall aim of the article is to offer an app...

The aim of this research was to measure the relative efficiency of forest management plans in north of Iran. In order to fulfill the research, data of 12 forest management plans were collected from the financial balance sheets of Shafaroud Forest Company during a ten years period. First of all, basic Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models (BCC and CCR) were used to determine the efficiency. The...

Change impact analysis is a crucial change management activity that previously has been studied much from a technical perspective. In this paper, we present a systematic interview-based study of a non-technical aspect of impact analysis. In the study, we have investigated how potential issues and uses of impact analysis are viewed by industrial experts at three organisational levels, based on A...

Persistent object systems are highly-valued technology because they ooer an eeec-tive foundation for building very long-lived persistent application systems PAS. The technology becomes more eeective as it ooers a more consistently integrated computational context. For it to be feasible to design and construct a PAS it must be possible to in-crementally add program and data to the existing colle...