MANAGING LARGE-SCALE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS

Issues in large - scale assessments Issues in Large - scale Assessments

In large-scale assessments such as state-wide testing programs, national sample-based surveys and international comparative studies, there are many steps involved in the measurement and reporting of student achievement. Typically, the steps involved include the following:  Items are developed and test instruments are assembled;  Student samples are selected (for sample-based surveys);  Tests...

Considering Ecological Processes in Environmental Impact Assessments

Managing Large Scale Computational Markets

General equilibrium theory has been proposed for resource allocation in computational markets. The basic procedure is that agents submit bids and that a resource (re)allocation is performed when a set of prices (one for each commodity) is found such that supply meets demand for each commodity. For successful implementation of large markets based on general equilibrium theory, ee-cient algorithm...

Building and Managing Large Scale

Recent research in peer-to-peer and grid computing has made it possible to build Internet scale services such as content distribution, storage service, name service and publish/subscribe. By utilizing large number of service nodes that collaborate in a decentralized fashion, such services can potentially achieve high scalability, availability, reliability and QoS/performance. Despite such poten...

Managing Large-scale Probabilistic Databases

Managing Large-scale Probabilistic Databases Christopher Ré Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Dan Suciu Computer Science & Engineering Modern applications are driven by data, and increasingly the data driving these applications are imprecise. The set of applications that generate imprecise data is diverse: In sensor database applications, the goal is to measure some aspect of the ph...