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The project schedule is used as a key tool for managers to measure the progress of the project and prevent the deviation of the project from achieving its goals.Project scheduling started with manual methods. After a while, due to the increase in the size of projects and their complexity, the efficiency of traditional methods decreased. After the advances in computer sciences, scientists and experts had moved towards intelligentization and automation.During the past three decades, despite the attention of both academic and industrial fields towards automatic planning and scheduling of projects, Most of the researches focused on construction projects, and unfortunately, a few attentions have... 

Supply chain management aims to increase customer satisfaction and satisfy demand with the lowest cost by establishing coordination and cooperation among the chain members. However, considerable concerns along supply chain management are reported from both academicians and practitioners. Security, visibility, transparency and traceability are the main challenges confronting supply chain management. The emerging technology named Blockchain is able to address the mentioned challenges by integrating with supply chain management. A prominent point to consider is that whether it is absolutely necessary to adopt blockchain technology in a system or not. If yes, how blockchain should be implemented... 

The breadth and intertwining of the concepts of the Scrum Agile framework has made it difficult to understand the details in relation to each other correctly and quickly, and has faced learning Scrum with a challenge; because the newbies have to choose between schematic and imprecise but general images showing connections and detailed and precise but unstructured texts. On the other hand, the different approaches of Scrum implementation in different organizations according to the different conditions of the organizations and the specific ideas of each organization to personalize Scrum in the places that Scrum has given them this permission, have made the Scrum teams willing to learn as much... 

Today, the digital transformation has increasingly confronted software development companies with numerous requests for the production of custom software. Over time, these companies have realized that paying attention only to the technical aspect is not enough for delivering a product that functions correctly; the social dimension must also be considered. Consequently, many agile software development methods have been developed. However, an important point to note is that implementing and maintaining these methods involves many intricacies, with the most significant being the management of interpersonal relationships. With the continuous expansion of technology and the advancement of... 

The aim of this research is to develop and implement a deep reinforcement learning algorithm for portfolio management in the Tehran stock market, which is considered an emerging market with distinct patterns compared to the stock markets of developed countries. In this study, in addition to the market price data extensively used in previous research, we leverage fundamental ratio data extracted from company financial reports, which have received less attention. Furthermore, the research scope is limited to stocks in the mining and metal industries to enable the utilization of specific industry features, such as susceptibility to global prices of a key commodity. The portfolio management... 

Greenhouse gases have a large share in pollution and global warming, and carbon dioxide is the main component of more than 80% of greenhouse gas emissions. For this reason, governments are looking for policies at the national and international level to reduce carbon emissions. In this research, using the system dynamics approach, a comprehensive model of the relationship between society, economy and carbon emissions in Iran has been designed. System dynamics is a method to study complex systems, which is used in this research because of the interactions between different parts of society, economy and carbon emissions and to better understand the relationship between them. First, the model is... 

Studies have shown that by reducing the stiffness of structures the seismic load imposed on them is reduced. In this research the effect of two different precast connections on the seismic response of precast concrete structures with shear walls during earthquakes was studied. The connections were vertical connections and were used to connect the two halves of the shear walls together. The results were compared with that of a wet connection. In this research 46 different structures were analyzed. The buildings were 9, 6 and 3 stories. In order to obtain the best seismic behavior different combinations of steel were considered among the connections. The seismic behavior of the structures were... 

Today, knowledge is the most important resource in software development. The success of software development relies on the exchange of knowledge between software developers working in different agile teams. The purpose of this research is to determine the size of agile teams according to knowledge sharing factors. Knowledge sharing factors between work teams have been extracted by searching articles; Then, all these factors, which are classified into five main categories: individual, organizational, technological, cultural, and geographical, were investigated and separated according to the working conditions in Iran, and finally, the important factors were identified by the evaluation of... 

Organizations increasingly prioritize and utilize their intangible assets in a combined manner to achieve sustainable competitive advantage and success in a volatile market environment. In this research, the most important intangible assets of organizations have been identified. Using the Generalized Method of Moments, a suitable regression method for the statistical analysis of panel data, the impact of intangible assets on organizational profitability—specifically the return on assets—is examined separately and simultaneously across manufacturing and service industries. These assets include innovation, employee engagement, and customer satisfaction. The population of this study consists of... 

Acidity values of some compound (e.g., alkanes, alcohols, carboxylic acids and amines) with or without boron substitute have been studied theoretically to evaluate the influence of boron on acidity of organic functional groups. We have derived the unoccupied reactive orbital that show the maximum localization on the boron pπ atomic orbital overlapping with the lone-pair orbital of an electron donor. Localization of unoccupied reactive orbital on the boron pπ atomic and the polarizability of the boron center are two factors which affect acidity values of functional groups. Conformational searching was performed using MM (Molecular Mechanics). The most important conformations were optimized at... 

It is believed that intramolecular hydrogen bonding and also conjugation can affect the acidity power of organic molecules. But simultaneous effects of intramolecular hydrogen bonding and conjugation have not investigated systematically yet. In this project, we choose Ascorbic acid as a basic structure. Then we have changed its structure conveniently, and have explored the roles of hydrogen bonding and conjugation on the acidity of this molecule by using B3LYP functional with the 6-311++G(d,p) basis set. After that we similarly investigate these effects on the acidity of three different systems, including enols, enamines and alcohols. In this project we probe the effect of different hydrogen... 

Brown and Henneaux showed that asymptotic symmetries of asymptotically form a conformal group in two dimensions [1]. Also they could derive classical central charge of theory. Fourteen years later, Maldacena, conjectured that this Holographic correspondence could be true for a specific theory a simplified chromodynamics in the boundary of ), this holographic theory attracted physicist communitee's attention. Many physicists tried to make this conjecture more precise. It is worth to say that, no example of holographic correspondence has been completely proven, till now, Because of the difficulty of the calculation. However these days we consider Madacena conjectrure in any arbitrary... 

This thesis contributes two separate predictive direct torque control methods; based on hysteresis and fuzzy logic for Brushless Doubly Fed Induction Machine (BDFM). Initially Chapter 1, focuses on BDFM history and concept of this machine and after that a short review about the development of BDFM and the Field Oriented Control will be studied. Chapter 2 introduces the d-q-0 state transformation matrix, dynamic equation of BDFM and represents its steady-state equivalent. Furthermore, in this chapter the bond graph model of BDFM is studied and via distinguishing all energy ports the bond graph model of this motor is introduced and validated, finally the result of this model is compared with... 

This study discusses about mass customization and optimization of supply network in which both goal considering to set the flow of raw material and final product to satisfy the customer demand. The mass customization is more important concept in this study, so that this goal is placed to the first objective. In this research, the model which contained both goal is presented. The model focus on mass customization and try to satisfy various products demand, which constitute 3 kind of speed demands. Each product can satisfy in 3 way: fast, normal, slow.In the first model the new approach present in which the speed affects all of supplying, manufacturing and distributing system. The system try... 

Knowledge Based Firms are considered to be important for the economic development of a country in regards to both employment growth and innovative activity. The latter is believed to contribute significantly to the increase in productivity and therefore the competitiveness of Iran’s economy. This study contributes to the above literature by investigating the factors that are believed to treat the growth of such firms in Iran. The purpose of this study is to identify functional risks of vital signs monitors via Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) method to use as a guide for manufacturers to identify and control hazards. Therefore, 30 knowledge based firms were selected as sample. Then, based on a... 

This project aims to design a novel structure that can inhibit the activitvation of the c-Met enzyme using amino acids and sugars building blocks. The c-Met enzyme is a receptor tyrosine kinase that plays a significant role in several biological activities such as cell proliferation, survival, and invasion. Abnormal activity of the enzyme is linked to the progression of various types of cancer, including breast, lung, liver, and stomach cancer. The proposed sugar amino acid conjugate structures is expected to increase stability amino acids and dipeptides in the physiological environment, improve membrane permeability via active transport mechanism, and reduce toxicity and side effects by...