supply chain management is a set of guidelines for integration of chains, which aims to reduce costs and increase system services to customers. one of the most important issues for supply chain stockholders is procuring and purchasing requested items in a timely manner. thus, a variety of models have been proposed as purchasing strategy in supply chains. group purchasing is a system which leads...

It’s often crucial to choose a good architecture to succeed in a project. This is even more so when it comes to modeling Cooperative Information Systems (CoIS). Whenever we deal with cooperation, the information system of an organization doesn’t depend neither on definite nor exhaustive conceptual choices. This makes it necessary to define methods and models that can fulfill the conceptual need...

Cooperation played a significant role in the self-organization and evolution of living organisms. Both network topology and the initial position of cooperators heavily affect the cooperation of social dilemma games. We developed a novel simulation program package, called 'NetworGame', which is able to simulate any type of social dilemma games on any model, or real world networks with any assign...

This review presents a review of prevalent results within research pertaining to emergent cooperation in biologically inspired artificial social systems. Results reviewed maintain particular reference to biologically inspired design principles, given that current mathematical and empirical tools have provided only a partial insight into elucidating mechanisms responsible for emergent cooperatio...

association of southeast asia nations (asean) was created in 1967 in order to prevent the threat of communism in southeast asia. but, over time, new states joined it and goals and activities of this organization expanded to other areas such as economic, commercial, political and cultural ones. thus, over time, cooperation between members expanded in a way today this regional organization is con...

in this article, the social capital concept has been thoroughly surveyed. consequently, this concept and its related dimensions and factors has been extracted from imam ali's point of view (nahjolbalaghah letters). by implementing the extracting adaptive concepts and exerting suitable qualitative research methods, an islamic framework for social capital improvement in islamic communities h...

Successful concepts of self-organization found in natural systems can enable enterprise information systems to address their complexity issues. In this paper, we propose an analysis of self-organization approaches found in natural sciences and information technology. Based on common classes both for application areas and mechanisms, these two fields are compared in order to identify successful ...