having a full understanding of the world’s social-economic situation is the success key for industries automotive manufacturing industry is an extremely competitive one usually there is no clear guideline among automotive companies about technological causes behind their success and failure. this research provides an investigation about the world’s economic situation and the environmental situa...

Today IT executives need to define their IT strategy and align it with the overall corporate strategy. However, research offers them little advice with respect to determining the strategic position of their IT departments as a basis for strategic planning. Based on a review of concepts from general management, this paper proposes a framework for strategic positioning in IT management. The autho...

INTRODUCTION Initial attempts are made to implement electronic health record (EHR) in Iran, the present study aim is developing a proper roadmap to EHR in pre-implementation phase by expert views on the matter. METHOD An initial framework was developed for preimplementation based on reviewing literature on EHR implementation and descriptive-comparative with qualitative approaches in five coun...

The timed-initiation paradigm developed by Ghez and colleagues (1997) has revealed two modes of motor planning: continuous and discrete. Continuous responding occurs when targets are separated by less than 60 degrees of spatial angle, and discrete responding occurs when targets are separated by greater than 60 degrees . Although these two modes are thought to reflect the operation of separable ...

Airport development is increasingly difficult. One of these difficulties stems from uncertainty about future developments. Currently, airport development relies on Airport Master Planning (AMP). The goal of AMP is to provide a detailed blueprint for how the airport should look in the future, and how it can get there. However, among others because of the uncertainty, Master Plans often perform p...

Most practical work on AI planning systems during the last fifteen years has been based on hierarchical task network (HTN) d ecomposition, but until now, there has been very little analytical work on the properties of HTN planners. This paper describes how the complexity of HTN planning varies with various conditions on the task networks. networks are required to be totally ordered, and (3) whe...