In project portfolio management, the sources of change, task interactions, and the necessity for distributed planning should be considered. Most existing project methods have difficulties to produce desired results in highly dynamic multi-projects environments. In this paper, we present a project portfolio management approach with multi-agent. We described the types of agents used in project po...

Due to the increasing size of the population, society faces several challenges for sustainable and adequate agricultural production, quality, distribution, and food safety in the strategic project portfolio selection (SPPS). The initial adaptation of strategic portfolio management of genetically modified (GM) Agro by-products (Ab-Ps) is a huge challenge in terms of processing the agro food prod...

Services in the form of business services or IT-enabled (Web) Services have become a corporate asset of high interest in striving towards the agile organisation. However, while the design and management of a single service is widely studied and well understood, little is known about how a set of services can be managed. This gap motivated this paper, in which we explore the concept of Service P...

Introduction The key to business success depends on the infusion of new ideas for how products are brought to market. To achieve this goal, today's software-based product development organizations must deliver a product line—a portfolio of similar products with variations in features and functions—rather than just an individual product. A new approach referred to as software product lines (SPL)...

Getting value from IT investments is mentioned as one of the reasons why organizations should pay attention to IT governance. (Applegate et al (2009)). As far as the IT governance of IT is concerned, IT portfolio management is often viewed as a condition, without which it is difficult to fit in IT investment optimally within an organization's requirements. (Dhillon, et al (2010)). This article ...

copula functions are powerful tools that describe dependence structure of multi- dimension random variables and are considered as one of the newest tools for risk management. one application of copula functions in risk management is calculating value at risk that can assert is the most widely used risk measures in financial institutions. in this article which primary goal is estimating more acc...

Getting value from IT investments is mentioned as one of the reasons why organizations should pay attention to IT governance. (Applegate et al (2009)). As far as the IT governance of IT is concerned, IT portfolio management is often viewed as a condition, without which it is difficult to fit in IT investment optimally within an organization's requirements. (Dhillon, et al (2010)). This article ...

the credit portfolio management and the optimal credit portfolio selection are identified as one of the most effective factors in banks’ credit risk. two main strategies in this regard include diversification versus concentration. in this study, at first, the status of diversification of iran’s banking sector is analyzed, then the relationship between diversification of the credit portfolio and...

Application portfolio management concerns the management of all technology and applications, and is a complex task under pressure of increasing collaboration among hospitals. Various approaches to application portfolio management are described in existing literature, but are directed at commercial enterprises rather than health care organizations. Addressing this deficiency, this article presen...

First-degree price discrimination is a prevalent practice in business markets given the private nature of the interactions between buyers and sellers. Some customers accept paying higher prices because they have imperfect information about the distribution of prices or cannot afford to switch to an alternative in the short run. However, customers may become aware (imperfectly) where the prices ...