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Nowadays, NGOs have a special roll in solving social problems in the world. In regards to the developing state of these organizations in Iran, the need of adopting a systematic approach in managing these organizations, is bold. Renewing of the old methods of work in these organizations, is an aid to removing the barriers of development faced by these organizations.
In this regard, this thesis subjects the reengineering of business processes of Rayehe Charity Foundation which is an NGO dealing with empowerment of households women.
After studding the literature of reengineering, the thesis continues on introducing the organization and its activities in more detail. It categorizes... 

A distinct viewpoint is adopted by each centrality to analyze a network and rank its nodes. This study aims to introduce a novel centrality that ranks the nodes of a network more effectively. In this respect, a function of five centralities, namely betweenness, closeness, agent vector, degree, and Katz, is introduced to maximize the connected components of the network after ranking its nodes and deleting the first twenty ones. The proposed centrality functions better than the other mentioned centralities. Among the networks simulated to evaluate the centrality, it functions better in Erdos-Renyi and small-world networks, both of whom being based on the Poisson degree distribution, and...