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Graphene, the newborn nanomaterial whose unique properties has extensively drawnattention of many scientists in the recent years, is an ideal candidate for sensing applications due to its exclusive properties like extremely high specific surface area, excellent electrical conductivity, andcapability of being easily functionalized. In this research, after reviewing the attempts already performed on detection of DNA, in order to detect the four bases of DNA (G, A, T, and C) via electrochemical approach, graphene nanosheets were synthesized by the popular Hummer’s method and were deposited on a graphite rod by electrophoretic deposition with a vertical preferred orientation. To eliminate the... 

A Polygonal finite element method without conforming mesh was introduced by the authors for modeling large deformation elastoplastic problems. In this method, the geometry and interfaces of the problem are modeled on a uniform mesh. The boundaries are defined on the uniform background mesh using the level set method. Different polygonal elements will be created at the intersection of the interface and the uniform mesh. Polygonal element shape functions are used for the interpolation. In this paper, the capability of this polygonal finite element approach for modeling large deformational frictionless dynamic contact-impact problems is investigated. Contact interfaces are modeled independent... 

Nowadays the concept of competition in business has been expanded from enterprises to supply chains. For success in this competitive environment, it should be established complete coordination and synchronization between different rings of the chain in both strategy and operations. The supply chain management is a factor for achieving to this purpose. Effective supply chain management, especially in complex supply chains like petroleum upstream supply chain, requires to strategic factors that propel the chain to the long term goals. Unfortunately, it is showing off the vacancy of attending to this case in the literature. This thesis tries to fill this gap in literature with a new approach... 

Graphene is a semiconductor with zero band gap. Due to electron ballistic transportation and having a single atom thickness of graphene, it is counted as an ideal material in Nano-electronic industry and essential candidate for fabrication of next generation of transistors. The Fermi level in graphene is located between Conduction and valance bands in a Dirac point. Due to low resistance, graphene has a substantial sensitivity near the Dirac point to local carrier density changes. This feature makes delicate detection of electromagnetic waves and gas sensing by graphene field effect transistors (GFETs). In this thesis, fabrication and characterization of graphene field effect transistor on... 

In today's turbulent environment, change is considered as requirements of any business and organizations need to change in order to remain competitive. Change management includes: control the processes of change within the organization and its compatibility with its processes in different organizational levels (group and individual). Lately organizations are realizing the power of social networks and their analytics to solve business challenges and produce innovation, and a growing trend of using social networks is seen. A social network is defined as a set of people, organizations or other social entities, connected by a set of socially meaningful relationships. According to this fact, the... 

Considering continuous growth of communication infrastructure and devices and the number of service and manufacturing firms, competition in the market is becoming tougher and more complicated as time goes by. In this situation firms need to be adapted to the varying needs of the market and keep the quality of their products high and their prices stable to exist and grow. Accordingly, one of the consequences of current competitive market is the continuous decrease in firms' products and services life cycles. Following this situation, firms and researchers have employed different tools to approach this goal which is shortening products and services life cycles. One of the most efficient tools... 

Nowadays, the manufacturing environments have been faced with the globalization paradigm. This paradigm urges the new necessities for manufacturing environments like concentration on customer demands, focus on increase of quality and its continuous improving trend and shortening the products’ lifecycle. These necessities have been considered by many researchers and have led to different ideas in the field of effective and efficient product development and after sales services. Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) is known as the major research field for study, development and proposal of effective IT solutions to fulfill the aforementioned necessities. This research filed has resulted to... 

Software development project management has always faced a lot of challenges and the success rate in these type of projects has always been lower than other types of projects. Information systems development projects have lots of complexities and the project management process in these projects is so important and critical. In order to solve some challenges and problems of information systems project management, iterative and incremental methodologies are presented. Lots of researches are conducted about traditional methods of project management and but there are still a lot of unknowns about iterative approach and management using this approach especially in the context of planning and time... 

Business global environments, today, are faced with multiple pressures and changing customer needs that make them to create quick solutions. Enterprise Resource Planning system has attracted organizations that are looking for achieving the competitive advantages, in the past two decades. On the other hand, employees are the greatest asset of any organization and effective utilization of these assets, play an important role in achieving competitive advantage, so planning and managing human resource have a special place in all of the organizations. In this regard, there are several tools, one of them is deploying information systems. Since human resources are the most important part of the... 

Regarding to globalization concept, all companies around the world can communicate with each other, share their technologies and also compensate their production deficiencies. To achieve this goal, cloud manufacturing system have been proposed and investigated. One of the most important issues in cloud manufacturing is focusing on the service composition, in which a composition of cloud services is determined to meet customer demands. Also due to the distribution of the resources in the different points and geographic locations, considering to the production and routing which previously have been studied in the classical space is very important. Considering this, the problem is as follows:... 

With the development of science and technology and its application in IT (e.g. internet, intranet and URL) the sharing of manufacturing resources reaches higher research attention, where resource virtualization enables new possibilities in terms of collaboration. As a result of these changes, with the intention of sharing optimum allocation of cloud manufacturing resource and capability among service providers and service users, the concept of service composition was introduced. Cloud services can be combine to build virtual manufacturing chain, so a strategy focusing on the evaluation and selection of virtual manufacturing resources to fulfill given services is fundamental exercise to... 

Nowadays supply chain literature has met lots of changes due to developments in information technology domain. One of the changes is relevant to the usage of cloud computing domain in manufacturing systems context and programming and managing supply chains would meet changes consequently.Cloud manufacturing development, as an engineering model, has been created as a result of globalization following Internet development. In modern perspective, supply chain planning and management, makes it possible for all elements of supply chain network which are geographically apart to use manufacturing sources and services in the context of presenting and exchanging services. This subject is considered... 

Cloud Manufacturing is a new paradigm which under development and has been introduced as one of the promising models for providing ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable manufacturing resources (e.g, networks, servers, facilities, applications, robots, machines and services) that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort and service provider’s interaction. Cloud Manufacturing is defined based on Cloud Computing. Like the Cloud Computing, Cloud Manufaturing offers a service-oriented architecture that is based on information technology (IT) in which each manufacturing resources is expressed as a service. For providing a... 

Nowadays, the modern manufacturing dramatically has changed due to the intense global competition and the globalization of economics, resources, and rapid progress in manufacturing systems, information, computer and information management. Cloud manufacturing systems are a new network-based manufacturing paradigm which by utilizing cloud computing and service generation enables technologies to transfer manufacturing resources into manufacturing services. Moreover, recent researches have shown that security, reliability, and quality are enhanced by cloud computing systems. In cloud manufacturing systems, resources that are located in different geographic points enable the distribution of... 

Nowadays. global competition in manufacturing industries is increasing dramatically. In fact, the traditional production systems are not able to satisfy the needs of customers whom their production complexity is increasing. In order to fulfill the mentioned challenge, a new manufacturing system entitled “cloud Manufacturing” is introduced. In this new paradigm, manufacturing resources and capabilities of production are virtualized through internet and in the whole life cycle of manufacturing and production. These resources are available for end-users via the internet based on an XaaS (everything as aservice) approach. Moreover, although there are some limitations when manufacturing services... 

In each organization, decision-making about products and their impact on the profitability of the organization is vital. Today, with the constant changes and resource constraints, as well as the growing importance of environmental issues for organizations, creating a decision model that considers all of the aformentioned aspects is vital. This study considers ten effective factors related to product portfolio and focuses on maintaining business sustainability in multi-product organizations. First, by assessing the relationship between criteria and products, the priority and weight of each of the criteria by the network analysis process (ANP) method are determined. In the next step, using the... 

Today, Information Technology is a critical aspect for the development of the modern manufacturing industry. Network technology can connect customers, partners, and the general public to work together and provide resources across the supply chain to improve product performance. To meet the goal of higher performance with lower operational costs and shorter delivery times for new products, many network-driven or service-oriented models have been proposed. These models focus more on communicating with dispersed partners rather than Integrated management and generalization of dynamic resource partnerships. But, cloud manufacturing has been recognized in the literature for generating computing... 

In recent years, economy globalization has led to a major focus on the needs of customers, Moreover globalization has resulted in geographically distributed suppliers across the globe. In such a space, using cloud manufacturing as one of the novel technologies in manufacturing that deals with resource management has been more and more taken into consideration. one of the most important issues in cloud manufacturing is service composition, in which, after receiving customer’s demand, a combination of cloud services is provided to meet customer’s demand. In fact, the customer's need is decomposed in different tasks, each of which is carried out by one (or more) manufacturing plant. the purpose...