today, the benefits of organizations cannot be achieved by one organization alone, because the organizations are trying to make their business focus on core competence, and they outsourcing other activities to other organizations. iranian organizations have long spoken of it outsourcing is a form of serious issues; so managers need to increase their knowledge and techniques in the field of it o...

The present paper presented a methodology for prioritizing the innovative and entrepreneurial indicators using Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), taking into account three individual, organizational and cultural dimensions simultaneously in decision making procedure. This methodology has two main advantages: first, the speed of operation in the accounti...

We develop an analytical method for calculating the burst loss probabilities in a tandem Optical Burst Switched (OBS) network with a bursty arrival process, depicted by an Interrupted Poison Process (IPP). The OBS network is modelled as a tandem network of loss nodes which is analyzed using single-node decomposition, whereby each node is studied in isolation as an IPP/M/W/W. For this, we need t...

the present study was conducted to determine the most appropriate tree species planted in the same ecological condition considering different variables at darabkola forest, mazandran province. for this purpose, the success of planted species (maple, walnut, oak, pine, ash and elm) was assessed according to ninecriteria (soil nitrogen, soil phosphorus, soil potassium, leaf nitrogen, leaf phospho...

conflagration of forests and rangelands is one of the most frequent events in iran. it is regarded as one of the most important parts of land degradation that occurred due to range destruction and desertification. this study was conducted in boroujerd, lorestan province in west of iran in 2013 to determine the fire risk model. the data prepared for the study area involved the vegetation types, ...

a suitable location plays an important role in the competitiveness of a plant inthe market and should be selected such that it allows access to strategic advantagescompared with other competitors. the aim of the current study was identificationoptimized location of fluting paper plant from agricultural residues in mazandaranprovince using the analytical hierarchy process (ahp). after performing...

landfill site selection is an important action in integrated solid waste management process. different criteria should be considered in site selection. therefore using special methods are necessary to evaluate the criteria. the object of the current study was to determine and select suitable sites for solid waste landfill in shiraz city regarding the observation of environmental matters by usin...

Abstract As the number of artificial intelligence (AI) applications increases rapidly and more people will be affected by AI’s decisions, there are real needs for novel AI systems that can deliver both accuracy explanations. To address these needs, this paper proposes a new approach called eXplainable Mapping Analytical Process (XMAP). Different from existing works in explainable AI, XMAP is hi...