The emergence of electronic Business, or e-Business, has changed the operations and contents of traditional supply chain management or SCM. e-Business not only makes the operation of SCM more effective, but also plays the role of a major driving force to induce the development of new features of SCM by destroying the rules and orders that once governed and controlled SCM in the past. Based on t...

This paper studies bank loans over the business cycles in Iran to determine the role of Iranian banks in stabilizing credit. By estimating the long-run relations using dynamic OLS and fully modified OLS estimators, the findings show that real bank lending is positively related to real GDP in the long-run providing evidences of the pro-cyclicality of bank lending in Iran. Hence, Iranian banking ...

In the practice of business management, there is a pressing need for good information management instruments that can constantly acquire, monitor and analyze the early warning signals of business crises, thus effectively support decision makers in the early detection of crisis situations. With the development of advanced computing methods and information technology, there bring new opportunitie...

This paper tests the importance of real shocks as sources of fluctuations in iran’s economy. For this purpose, based on the work of Boschen and Mills, a set of non-monetary variables which can affect economic growth have been selected and by using an illustrative business cycle model in which the production depends on the past and current value of real shocks, the influence 01’ these variables ...

This paper presents a model that enables the optimal interpretation of Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) results for electronic systems. In this context, optimal interpretation of PHM results means translating PHM information into maintenance policies and decisions that minimize life cycle costs, or maximize availability or some other utility function. The electronics PHM problem is chara...

Abstract This paper introduces a Business Cycle Indicator to compile transparent and reliable chronology of past business cycle turning points for Germany. The is derived applying the statistical method Principal Component Analysis, based on information from 20 economic time series. In this way, grasps development broader activity has several advantages over assessment quarterly series Gross Do...

The PRIME (Providing Real Integration in Multi-disciplinary Environments) project 1 aims in modeling, creating and evaluation of a Virtual Business Environment (VBE) for learning the entire life cycle of products and processes for all involved stakeholders and for gaining practical experience in strategic manufacturing through serious gaming. The paper presents the overall architecture of the P...

Service-Based Enterprise Systems represents an emerging paradigm in software development. Over the years, its usage has increased exponentially in fields such as manufacturing, banking, telecommunication and healthcare due to its ability to promote reusability, loosely-coupled and scalability for software development. However to accommodate the evolution of business requirements in SBES, there ...

Low process predictability and, consequently, excessive rework are salient characteristics in many of today’s commonly-used software development life cycle processes, making it exceedingly difficult for development organizations to deliver quality software systems within economically and technically reasonable frames. This paper advances the argument that, as a solution to this problem, buildin...