نشریه مدیریت اطلاعات
سال دوم شماره 2 (پیاپی 3، پاییز و زمستان 1395)

Accurate forecasting of sales amount plays an important role in effective production and sourcing management of manufacturing companies which ultimately leads to high profitability. The paper proposes an effective use of data mining approaches to analyze and extract clusters of purchases that best characterizing the purchasing behavior of the dairy customers in different regions of Iran in a dominant dairy production company. The paper applies clustering and classification algorithms for differentiating the purchasing behavior across Iran. It employs six phases of business understanding, data understanding, data preparation and pre-processing, modeling, evaluation, and explanation of predictions for the managers of selected company. The data gathering and modeling phases are complemented by analytical predictions and conclusion. The research proves that for the dairy products that are highly perishable and should be produced on a daily basis, unexpected fluctuations in consumer demand may pose significant problems to the commercialization and sales of such products. It also categorizes the products sales behavior in different seasons and provides new directions for practitioners on the dairy products that should be selected for each season and city based on seasonal fluctuations. Due to the limitations in accessing the central databases of dairy companies and products, the researchers were required to gather data from daily databases for a limited period of time and for specific products. It is recommended to gather a full dairy data set for a broader range of products for the purpose of a more comprehensive validation and examination of results throughout the industry. The paper includes a practical analysis of appropriate sales policies for each category of sales behavior for the purpose of high profitability. The final forecasting solution demonstrates that demand in dairy market is very sensitive to changes in weather condition while it does not show a quick reaction to price changes. The paper concentrates on the need to maintain a balance between meeting customer demands and controlling inventory costs and also fulfills a major longtime need for enterprises seeking good sales performance and profitability through accurate analytical predictions.

An important mission of any information system is to provide the best service tailored to the needs of users. This increases users'' satisfaction and interest in using information systems. Nowadays, search engines are one of the most important tools in the recovery of pets and provide a variety of pets for many users. Students, university professors, and tutors pay for search engines on a daily basis and meet their basic needs. Treasure Database (Iranian Scientific Treasury) The Iranian Institute of Information Science and Technology, with 870,000 scientific records, enables researchers to search for dissertations, internal scientific journals, articles, conferences, research projects and government reports. It is obvious that users are influenced by different ways to obtain information and exhibit different information-seeking behaviors. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the information search behavior of users in the search engine of the treasure system. Analyzing users'' search behavior can help them better understand their needs. The results of the analysis indicate that the attendance rate is very low compared to the non-attendance time and the attendance hours vary among researchers in the humanities and engineering. The results of this analysis can also help to evaluate and resolve existing search engine retrieval issues.

Social media as emerging phenomena has not been investigated as an efficient tool for project communication management in the literature. To address the gap of existing studies, this research aims to analyze the data gathered from construction project managers as well as project team members whose job relates to project management and use social media tools as communication channels in their projects. The results show that social media improve project communication by better idea transfer using audio and video messages, faster data accessibility, and more effective and efficient project documentation. To enhance their positive impacts on project communication, the research suggest that the project managers may use tools that are specifically developed for project management, or they may at least create specific groups for project teams in social media. Although, the positive impacts are shown to be significant, there are still some challenges ahead that require attention, such as the mixed private and working relationships caused by overusing such tools in nonworking times.

Review on internal researches shows that so far no structured study was conducted with the focus on an information security culture model. That means until now, no research examined perception, attitude and behavior of information security culture of librarians. According to the purpose, this study for the first time localizes an information security culture model in Iran.The purpose of the study was to evaluate the Information Security Culture of Specialized Institution libraries in the Field of Engineering in Tehran & Alborz.This applied research conducted in a analytical and descriptive survey approach. Applying non-probability sampling, the research included 19 Engineering Research Institutes in Tehran and Alborz province and all librarians working in the library of those institutions were studied. Data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire based on Martins Information Security Culture Model in 2001. Data analyzed by using Descriptive Statistics such asIndicator of Central Tendency,Scattering Parameters and Analytical Statistics Method including One-way Analysis of Variance.The results indicated that the level of information security culture in studied libraries was weak (%76.7). On the other hand, the average perception, attitude and behavior of the librarians in the main dimensions of information security culture, i.e., in the Organizational Level was middle (%40.97), in the Group Level (%21.73), in the Individual Level (%24.67) and Change (%17.13) were weak. Moreover, sub-dimensions, namely Policy and Procedures (%15.78), Risk Analysis (%11.82), Benchmarking (%8.07), Budget (%5.3), Management (%12.18), Trust (%9.55), Awareness (%18.13) and Ethical Conduct (%6.53) were at low level.The current status of information security culture of libraries of research institutes was poorly evaluated. Furthermore, the status of perception, attitude and behavior of librarians regarding information security culture in the main dimensions and sub-dimensions were weak.

Today, risks related to information security are amajor challenge for many organizations, since these risks mayhave direct consequences, including loss ofcredibility and monetary damage. Statistics suggest that damages the information systems security is increasing.Many organizationsrecognize that their employees, who areoften considered the weakest link in information security, canalso be great assets in the effort to reduce risk related to information security. There is not significant research on the human aspect of information systems security and practice. Hence the purpose of this study was to examine factors influencing the employee compliance with information systems security policy in organization. To this end, 221 persons (including staff of 5 different organizations) were selected with the proportional method. After collecting the data, hypotheses were analyzed through confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling using AMOS software. The results showed that self-efficacy and attitude about the compliance have the most effects on the intention to comply with information security policy in organization.

A main requirement for an effective knowledge management is the coverage of appropriate information and knowledge in those systems designed for knowledge management. This can be performed through defining appropriate entities and metadata elements. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to introduce appropriate entities and metadata elements for designing knowledge management systems. In this regard, entities and metadata elements proposed in knowledge management systems (in related body of literature), a professional-specialized social network site (ResearchGate), and also a data model in the research area (CERIF) were extracted, investigated, and then compared by a qualitative approach with collective case studies to derive appropriate entities and metadata elements for an effective knowledge management system. Findings suggest that an effective knowledge management system in the research and technology area is a combination of traditional knowledge management systems and professional-specialized social network sites to cover tacit and explicit knowledge and also the communications of researchers and technologists. This system should include knowledge assets in the forms of persons (researchers and managers), publications (published or in progress), research projects, organization units, and services such as questions and answers, and job announcements along with appropriate metadata elements for every entity.

The aim of the present research is, evaluation Iran commercial banks website, and ranking them by using from web Assessment index. This research is combination of description and Delphi. The research population included 30 Iran commercial banks website. The data collection tool was the list of review. Bankswebsite in terms navigation and speed are good condition, and in terms of access and content are average condition. The total%53/3 bank websites are average. Ranking banks website showed Mellat bank is with a score of 79 in the first place and Ghavamin bank is with a score of 33 in last place. Results show that, evaluation Iran commercial banks website are with an average score 60 in good condition. %26/66 of banks website are good condition, %66/33 of banks website are average condition and%10 banks website are undesirabl.