The engineers can frequently encounter with the situation to select the optimum option among the alternatives related with tunneling operations. The optimum choice can be selected by the experienced engineers taking into consideration their judgment and intuition. However, decision-making methods can offer to the engineers to support their optimum selection for a particular application in a sci...

The potential of the Web, via both the Internet and intranets, to facilitate development of clinical information systems has been evident for some time. Most Web-based clinical workstations interfaces, however, provide merely a loose collection of access channels. There are numerous examples of systems for access to either patient data or clinical guidelines, but only isolated cases where clini...

The fit to the workflow is an important requirement for the acceptance of clinical decision support systems in practice. Clinical systems that do not satisfy this requirement are likely to be rejected by their users despite their functionality. Disruptions and deviations from the workflow may be avoided by the appropriate and careful design of interactions between the system and its users. In t...

the failure rate of small manufacturing firms in many countries is the main concern of policy makers, decision makers, and economists. many scholars in this context undertook numerous studies related to success of entrepreneurs, taking into account important factors such as organizational factors and personal qualities on their success. however, the present study attempts to investigate role of...

the development of a number of different rapid prototyping (rp) technologies with wide-ranging capabilities, features and applications has created the problem of selecting an appropriate rp system for engineering educational institutions as well as manufacturing organizations intending to adopt this new technology. this paper presents an rp decision support system (rp dss) for ranking and selec...