Introduction Mentoring is an increasingly popular concept of learning, development and support. Over the last 20, its use has grown significantly and is continuing to develop within a wide range of settings. In fact 87% of businesses in the US utilized mentoring according to a SHRM Survey (1999), (Klasen and Clutterbuck 2002). Apparently, this trend is consistent throughout other parts of the w...

We propose a new effective method for obtaining lower bounds on the number of repetition-free words over a finite alphabet.

We study extensive form games where players might not be able to foresee the possible consequences of their actions and try to exploit the opponents’ believed weaknesses in order to improve upon the final outcome. We build upon existing models of games with limited foresight, endowing players with the ability of higher-order reasoning, and proposing a novel solution concept to address intuition...

Nowadays companies measure suppliers on the basis of a variety of factors and criteria that affect the supplier's selection issue. This paper intended to identify the key effective criteria for selection of green suppliers through an efficient algorithm callediterative process mining or i-PM. Green data were collected first by reviewing the previous studies to identify various environmental cri...

introduction: human resource plays a very important role in the success or failure of a company. the weakness in conclusion of criteria of model efqm (employee's criteria and results) using fahp method (fuzzy analytical hierarchy process) will be discussed here as iranian organizations are usually weak in their results field. method: the present study is an applied research. procedure of doing ...