This article describes how as the world moves faster and faster towards a digital society, moving toward electronic cities is inevitable due to population growth and transformation of human relationships. Such trend is almost impossible without having electronic cities and citizens. Today,...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a new mixed-integer formulation for the time-dependent multi-skilled resource-constrained project scheduling problem (MSRCPSP/t) considering learning effect. The proposed model extends the basic form of the MSRCPSP by three concepts: workforces...

This study was conducted to investigate the problem of robust integrated project scheduling and material ordering in terms of resource constraints, uncertainty, and lag times. Simultaneous consideration of discount, non-renewability, perishability, uncertainty, and different project...

Strategic alignment is the extent to which business strategy, and information technology (IT) strategy, business structure and IT structure are fit. The factors affecting the business-IT strategic alignment has been studied in several previous researches. Most of the studies have been conducted...

Purpose This study aims to detect the influential factors and their respective variables that affect the effectiveness or demand-driven level of the industrial parks in Iran. A hybrid procedure is sought to be developed, which embraces both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to identify...