the aim of this paper is to construct a strategy map for a manufacturing company. to do so,based on the four aspects of the balanced scordcard, key performance indicators(kpi) were selected by a committee of experts. then, the decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (dematel) method was used to determind the type and intensity of relationships between key performance indicators and focu...

this research studies the potential impact of climate change on future trend and changes of two well known drought indicators namely rdi and spi in yazd meteorological station, in central part of iran. for this purpose, data of hadcm3 model that were resulted from gcm-runs based on the ipcc-sres scenarios of a2 and b2 were acquired and analyzed for projection of daily tmin, tmax and precipitati...

i n troduction: performance measurement is receiving increasing verification all over the world. nowadays in a lot of organizations, irrespective of their type or size, performance evaluation is the main concern and a key issue for top administrators. the purpose of this study is to organize suitable key performance indicators (kpis) for hospitals’ performance evaluation based on the balanced s...

This project implements an augmented reality version of Tic-Tac-Toe. In this game, the user draws an X on a paper board. Using a webcam and digital image processing techniques, the computer then determines the board state. Using this information, the computer chooses a move and displays the move in the appropriate place on the screen. Our finalized algorithm successfully completes these steps w...

In this paper, environmental sustainability performance assessment of 27 U.S. and Canada metropoles is addressed. A four-step hierarchical fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making approach is developed. In the first step, the proposed methodology is established by determining the sustainability performance indicators (a total of 16 sustainability indicators are considered), collecting the data and ...

1This work was initiated while the second author visited Nagano (March–May 1994) and then continued when the third author visited Edmonton (May–June 1994). The work was finalized when the fourth author visited Białystok (October–November 1994). Partial funding for this work has been provided by: Shinshu Endowment Fund for Information Science, NSERC Grant OGP9207, JSTF award 651-93-S009. 1 The p...

sioners approved a final set of standardized performance measures for the Disease-Specific Care Advanced Certifica tion in Heart Failure program. The measures for this program, which address both inpatient and outpatient settings for hospitals, were developed to better evaluate the care provided to heart failure patients with an emphasis on the transitions of care across care settings—specifica...