Craft metrics to value co-production

From Craft Production To Mass Customisation? Customer-Focused

There is considerable dissatisfaction with the performance of UK housebuilders in providing products which customers want to buy. Notions of ‘customer focus’, which have spread through some industrial and retail sectors have largely passed the housebuilding industry by. In its current guise, the industry is unlikely to be able to tackle the demographic and social demands which will be placed on...

Shifting Economies: Craft Production to the Flexible Factory

Applying Reliability Metrics to Co-Reference Annotation

Studies of the contextual and linguistic factors that constrain discourse phenomena such as reference are coming to depend increasingly on annotated language corpora. In preparing the corpora, it is important to evaluate the reliability of the annotation, but methods for doing so have not been readily available. In this report, I present a method for computing reliability of coreference annotat...

Policy options for value added to different levels of production

This paper presents an analytic procedure for the value added to different production levels with different policy options. The approach is stochastic and thus provides a framework for informed decision-making on productivity growth under uncertainty conditions. The model was applied to data collected from a firm and re-sults recommend that the firm should redevelop if in diversification and sy...

Value-Based Software Metrics

Many software metrics, particularly dependability metrics, are usually presented in a value-neutral framework. For example, the primary metric for Reliability, Mean Time Between Failures, is referenced to a one-size-fits-all (and often not explicitly defined) definition of “failure.” This can lead to serious problems, as when operators’ optimization on liveness produces user response times to q...