While many models exist to support the design process of a software development project, the evaluation process is far less well defined and this lack of definition often leads to poorly designed evaluations, or the use of the wrong evaluation method. Evaluations of products for children can be especially complex as they need to consider the different requirements and aims that such a product m...

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With the uptake of business process modeling in practice, the demand grows for guidelines that lead to consistent and integrated collections of process models. The notion of a business process architecture has been explicitly proposed to address this. This paper provides an overview of the prevailing approaches to design a business process architecture. Furthermore, it includes evaluations of t...

Decision making is a complex process, particularly when it is carried out by multidisciplinary team. Methods based on the analytical hierarchy process have been widely employed because they provide solid mathematical background. Nevertheless, solutions such as the Aggregation of Individual Judgements (AIJ) and the Aggregation of Individual Priorities (AIP) do not offer sufficient explanatory da...

Most of usability evaluation methods for the Web domain have several limitations such as: the concept of usability is only partially supported; usability evaluations are mainly performed when the Web application has been completed; there is a lack of guidelines on how to properly integrate usability into Web development. This paper addresses these issues through the presentation of a Web Usabil...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) evaluates causes of cancer with help from independent international experts in an open and transparent manner. Countries, research and regulatory agencies, and other organizations adopt IARC evaluations for communication of human cancer hazards, and for strategies to prevent cancer. Scientists worldwide endorse IARC cancer evaluations and p...

In many engineering optimization problems, the number of fitness function evaluations is limited by time and cost. These problems pose a special challenge to the field of evolutionary computation, since existing evolutionary methods require a very large number of problem function evaluations. One popular way to address this challenge is the application of approximation models as a surrogate of ...

The Honeywell AugCog team has developed a closed loop integrated prototype to address the performance advantages of a neurophysiologically driven system. The team has run a series of evaluations to validate the effectiveness of using cognitive state assessment to trigger performance mitigation strategies in an effort to improve overall system performance. This paper reviews the process for crea...

Background: Telemedicine is an expanded term in health information technology that comprises procedures for transmitting medical information electronically to improve patients’ health status. The objective of this research is to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of telemedicine interventions in various specialty areas.    Methods: The Cochrane Library and Centre for Review and Di...

The evaluation process of venture capitalists (VCs) has received much attention from researchers, as it gives insights into the criteria that distinguish successful from unsuccessful new firms. The underlying premise of these studies is that VC evaluations are objective, i.e. they predict actual startup success without systematic distortions. Only recently, research has pointed out that VC eval...