industrial organizations are complex systems` where the interactions among the various functions such as sales, distribution, manufacturing, materials, finance, human resources and maintenance have to be man-aged towards a common purpose of delivering the customers satisfaction. however, since most of these or-ganizations have a `functional structure`, each function or department works towards ...

In modern automotive and aeronautic onboard networks, a driving force exists to integrate multiple communication networks onto a single switched Ethernet network. Goals for future onboard communication networks are low weight, low price, high bandwidth, and certifiable safety. Certainly, these objectives influence each other and are difficult to fulfill. Furthermore, an existing certification m...

In this work, equality-constrained bilevel optimization problems, arising from engineering design, economics, and operations research problems, are reformulated as an equivalent semi-infinite program (SIP) with implicit functions embedded, which are defined by the original equality constraints that model the system. Using recently developed theoretical tools for bounding implicit functions, a r...

The present study investigated how executive functions and personality traits are related with driving performance among older drivers. Forty-two participants aged 60 and over were recruited to complete a battery of cognitive tests, measures of personality traits and an on-road driving test. Significant correlations were found between poor driving performances and low scores on tests assessing ...

in this paper, efforts are made to compare the safety of steel moment resistant frames designed according to different editions of the iranian code of practice for seismic resistant design of buildings. also, failure risk of a low and medium height frame which designed for high and low seismicity regions according to three editions of the code are evaluated. first, the testing cases were design...