introduction: hospitals require a central monitoring and improve planning process in order to enhance patient care quality. regarding the current developments in health care systems, the question is which information system can support transformation of hospitals. this review article focuses on the capacity of enterprise resource planning (erp) systems for the transformation of hospitals. metho...

conclusions: the results of the present research indicates that the emphasis of the his evaluation moves from technical subjects to human and organizational subjects, and from objective to subjective issues. therefore, this issue entails more familiarity with more qualitative evaluation methods. in most of the reviewed studies, the main focus has been laid on the necessity of using multi-method...

Recent years in geographical information handling have been marked with constant change and innovation. Geographical information systems and enterprizes have continued to gravitate towards distributed models based on open systems technologies. Increasingly, successful geographical information markets are predicated on robust service infrastructures that offer guarantees on performance, availabi...

Decision analysis can be defined as a set of systematic procedures for analysing complex decision problems. Differences between the desired and the actual state of real world geographical system is a spatial decision problem, which can be approached systematically by means of multi-criteria decision making. Many real-world spatially related problems give rise to geographical information system ...

an approach to agricultural management is to select and to identify susceptible regions for sowing according to the climatologic and physiographic condition of the land. knowing this enables the farmers to farm in line with the physical and climatologic conditions of the land and to decrease the crop injuries due to the undesirable climatologic conditions. there fore, this approach can be an ef...

 This paper discusses traditional development models of GIS and proposes another model, geographical information system shell(GISS). Following the thought of GISS, a geographic information query tool(GIQT) is developed. GIQT's main purpose and menu structure are introduced, as well as the classification and encoding. This paper especially describes the implementation of "two-direction multi-fu...