abstract. data envelopment analysis (dea) is now widely utilized as a method for assessing relative efficiency of a set of decision making units (dmus). along as evaluating relative efficiency dea models are capable of to be improved for finding benchmark for inefficient units which can help managers for better making decision. thus it is important to obtain accurate results from dea models. in...

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...

Performances evaluation, reproducibility and benchmarking represent crucial aspects for assessing the practical impact of research results in the computer science field. In spite of all the benefits (e.g., increasing impact, increasing visibility, improving the research quality) that can be gained from performing extensive experimental evaluation or providing reproducible software artifacts and...

As Internet services become more popular and pervasive, a critical problem that arises is managing the performance of services under extreme overload. This paper presents a set of techniques for managing overload in complex, dynamic Internet services. These techniques are based on an adaptive admission control mechanism that attempts to bound the 90th-percentile response time of requests flowin...

Properly benchmarking a system is a difficult and intricate task. Unfortunately, even a seemingly innocuous benchmarking mistake can compromise the guarantees provided by a given systems security defense and also put its reproducibility and comparability at risk. This threat is particularly insidious as it is generally not a result of malice and can easily go undetected by both authors and revi...

This paper presents some web server benchmarking techniques and tools that can be used to evaluate the performance of standalone as well as cluster web server systems. Various qualities and properties that should be provided by benchmarking tools are discussed. The focus is on comparing properties of some popular open source benchmarking tools which are readily available. This paper highlights ...

Benchmarking as a method of assessing software performance is known to suffer from random fluctuations that distort the observed performance. In this paper, we focus on the fluctuations caused by compilation. We show that the design of a benchmarking experiment must reflect the existence of the fluctuations if the performance observed during the experiment is to be representative of reality. We...