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Increasing of competency, urged organizations to perform their maximum endeavor for establishing effective communication with customers. Customers' demand for optional production along with minimum cost and time, has become a principle for many organizations. Organizations' general tendency for using project management methods in their businesses is increasing day by day and this matter necessitates research in various aspects of project management processes. Furthermore; outsourcing of activities and tendency to adopt contract methods, has persuaded organizations to use project management. For project-focused organizations, identification of daily changes in business theme and customer... 

One of the most important concerns of top management is continuous growth in revenue and profit specially in corporate with maturing core businesses. So managers invest vastly in growth opportunities but most of them lead to failure. One of the reasons can be the mistakes in growth opportunity identification. Growth opportunity Identifications needs a clear understanding of different dimensions in opportunities. In this research, a conceptual framework named “Reference Conceptual Framework for growth opportunity Identification” has been presented which includes four different dimensions: 1) “Where” including the distance of opportunity from core business and its impact on the core 2) “Which”... 

Successful deployment of the next-generation safety-critical systems (e.g., self-driving cars or assistive robots) requires certifying their safety during their operation. Therefore, there is an urgent need for developing safe controllers that respect the system’s constraints all the time. Safety, however, is the bare minimum requirement for any safety-critical system, and it is desired to design safe controllers that achieve as much performance as possible. Most existing results in the literature consider either optimal control design without safety specifications or safe control design with only short-sighted optimality. However, long-term optimality based on long-horizon optimization is... 

Human beings have always been tried to make new, innovative things to benefit from. The new things have been improved from a wheel to a smart car and the benefits have been improved from survival to survival plus fitness, happiness, sense of belonging, security and etc. Companies which have been following the human nature, and thinking of new, innovative products and consumers’ benefits cohesively, could gain competitive advantages. But the process of new product development has always been costly and due to the high failure rate it is risky. One of the main challenges in NPD projects is understanding consumer's behavior. Most companies try to identify consumer's needs by knowledge...