DIDGAH
Year:2012 | Volume:- | Issue:-|Papers Count:5

This paper tries to assess the business intelligence and its effect on port management in Ports and Maritime Administration of Guilan. First, different dimensions of business intelligence (include technical, organizational, business, and operational dimensions) and effective indicators of each dimension were assessed (40 indicators). Then, by analyzing the data collected via questioners, these dimensions and indicators are rated to determine the most effective dimensions and their indicators. Results of this study reveal the effectiveness of those indicators determined by the IT experts as well as experts in port affairs. Business intelligence reporting analyzes which are combined with key indicators and dashboards help the executive managers of the ports to achieve continued improvement, qualitative and on-time reports, and strategic decision-making.

Productive organizations are characterized by their equipments, machinery, and technical skills of the employees. Aligning and coordinating these characteristics has a significant effect on the organizational productivity and flexibility. Using optimized organizational designs and modern equipments will lead to quick environmental change only in the case of the presence of motivated, large-minded, creative, and skillful employees.Employees' motivation plays a key role in optimized use of equipments and machinery. Production management experts have focused on the relationship between production process effectiveness and machinery layout in a factory; but, they more focused on the technical aspect of production which is used to invent combined layouts like cell technology and/or flexible manufacturing system (FMS). However, measuring the amount of motivation hided in various layouts is somewhat obsolete. This paper tries to measure and compare the motivation of employees in two different designs of machinery layout - designing based on the products and designing based on the fixed position.

One way to decide about purchasing new port facilities is using simulation models that simulate real port operations and evaluate services provided for the vessels. As the biggest and the most important Iranian Port which is the main origin of import and export of containerized goods, Shahid Rajaee Port is studied using ED simulation model and performance of new port facilities is evaluated. Using this model, number of incoming vessels is determined, the possibility of berthing is assessed, and importing and exporting operation is simulated. Then container handling operation is modeled and container queue is evaluated. Measuring performance speed of the equipment operators and evaluating their working time, ship and container queues are recalculated and in the case that these queues be significant, the number of port facilities will be increased to eliminate the queues. In such cases, purchasing new port facilities is necessary. This study tries to assess the decision-making process for purchasing new equipments and facilities in order to increase ship-servicing capacity and decrease berthing time.

Detecting changes in satellite images is an important technique in analyzing remote sensing satellite images. It can be useful in estimating and evaluating areas destroyed in natural disasters and military applications.From the passive defense point of view, detecting the earth changes is very important in the construction, operation, and protection of essential and highly sensitive centers that should be camouflaged, concealed, and decepted. In this respect, establishing useful and effective strategies for designing these centers will facilitate above-mentioned method. Familiarity of experts who are in charge of designing and construction of very sensitive centers with the knowledge of camouflage, concealment and deception will increase safety and security of such centers. Analyzing satellite images requires several steps (pre-processing steps) such as registration, classification, change detection and data fusion. This article first tries to describe the techniques of registration, classification, change detection, and data fusion of satellite images. Finally, an algorithm is provided for registration, classification, change detection, and data fusion of satellite images. Results show that using the data fusion method of Dempster-Shepher is the best practice in this regard.

According to the latest reports of the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) on the analyzing of business environment, 117 economies from all over the world reform 216 business provisions, but Islamic Republic of Iran’s share of these reforms has been very small. With 3 reforms, Iran’s rate improved by two degree and now Iran is 129th country among 183 nations. This article tries to analyze the role of the ports in facilitating business environment using foreign trade indicator and to provide some guides to improve it.