PURPOSE This article focuses on using currently available data to assist speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in making decisions regarding a child's eligibility and considerations for recommended "dosage" of early intervention (EI) services. METHOD Literature describing the characteristics of infants and toddlers who are likely recipients of EI services was reviewed. RESULTS Current literat...

We describe SIBYL, a system that supports group decision making by representing and managmg the qualitative aspects of decision making processes; such as the alternatives, the goals to be satisfied, and the arguments evaluating the alternatives with respect to these goals. We use an example session with SIBYL to illustrate the language, called DRL, that SIBYL uses for representing these qualita...

due to the particular importance of projects in human life and in organizations, proper project management has been always regarded highly by researchers and practitioners. recent advances in technology and fundamental changes in most scientific areas have affected projects and made their nature and environmental circumstances much more complex than in the past. fortunately, in recent years, ma...

‎selecting the most suitable robot among their wide range of specifications and capabilities is an important issue to perform the hazardous and repetitive jobs‎. ‎companies should take into consideration powerful group decision-making (gdm) methods to evaluate the candidates or potential robots versus the selected attributes (criteria)‎. ‎in this study‎, ‎a new gdm method is proposed by utilizi...

product mix problem (pmp) is one of the most important and complicated problems in production systems. different approaches have been applied to solve this problem, among them, theory of constraints (toc) has been widely considered since 1990s. this paper develops a distinguished algorithm to solve product mix prob-lems that is efficient both in single and multi-bottleneck problems. at first, t...