P-Bench: Benchmarking in Data-Centric Pervasive Application Development

Data Generation for Application-Specific Benchmarking

The Transaction Processing Council (TPC) has played a pivotal role in the database industry’s growth over the last twenty-five years. However, its handful of domain-specific benchmarks are increasingly irrelevant to the multitude of data-centric applications, and its top-down process is slow. This mismatch calls for a paradigm shift to a bottomup community effort to develop tools for applicatio...

EHR Test Bench : a Prototype Application for Quantitative Benchmarking of Electronic Health Record Software

The Evolving Tuples Approach to Application Development

Developing software applications for pervasive networks of resource-constrained devices is a difficult process. The domain-specific challenges are complex enough without the added complexity of unintuitive and convoluted languages required to reify and deploy applications in modern devices. Traditional techniques for pervasive application deployment are also needlessly static and brittle, imped...

THE APPLICATION OF DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY TO IMPROVE THE BENCHMARKING PROCESS IN THE EFQM BUSINESS MODEL (CASE STUDY: AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY OF IRAN)

This paper reports a survey and case study research outcomes on the application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the ranking method of European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Business Excellence Model in Iran’s Automotive Industry and improving benchmarking process after assessment. Following the global trend, the Iranian industry leaders have introduced the EFQM practice to thei...

A Qualitative Resource Utilization Benchmarking for Mobile Applications

There are many mobile applications currently available on the market, which have been developed specifically for smart phones. The operating system of these smart phones is flexible enough to facilitate the high level application development. Similar to other pervasive devices, mobile phones suffer from limited amount of resources. These resources vary from the power (battery) consumption to th...