For problems where the evaluation of an individual is the dominant factor in the total computation time of the evolutionary process, minimizing the number of evaluations becomes critical. This paper introduces a new crossover operator for genetic programming, memetic crossover, that reduces the number of evaluations required to find an ideal solution. Memetic crossover selects individuals and c...

Accounts of general election outcomes increasingly talk about voters comparing parties in terms of their perceived competence to manage the economy and public services. This raises the question of how voters form evaluations of party competence. Whilst it is assumed that voters form evaluations of the incumbent based on the signals provided by its current performance in office it is less clear ...

This paper explains when and how to integrate aspects of usability engineering in the agile development process proposed by the InterMod methodology. The aim of InterMod is to facilitate the accurate development of high-quality interactive software. This is accomplished by means of agile software engineering activities and continuous assessment in which certain usability evaluation techniques h...

One of the distinguishing features of implementation research is the importance given to involve implementers in all aspects of research, and as users of research. We report on a recent implementation research effort in India, in which researchers worked together with program implementers from one of the longest serving government funded insurance schemes in India, the Rajiv Aarogyasri Scheme (...

Student feedback is a critical component of the teacher-learner cycle. However, there is not a gold standard course or clerkship evaluation form and limited research on the impact of changing the evaluation process. Results from a focus group and pre-implementation feedback survey coupled with best practices in survey design were used to improve all course/clerkship evaluation for academic year...

The SEALS European project aims to develop an infrastructure for the evaluation of semantic technologies. This paper presents in detail the approach followed to automate the execution of these evaluations in the infrastructure. To materialize this approach, we have defined the entities managed by the infrastructure and their life cycle, the process followed to execute evaluations, the managemen...

The current study examines how the instructions given during picture viewing impact age differences in incidental emotional memory. Previous research has suggested that older adults' memory may be better when they make emotional rather than perceptual evaluations of stimuli and that their memory may show a positivity bias in tasks with open-ended viewing instructions. Across two experiments, pa...

Device evaluation, which is an essential skill set for the respiratory therapist, ranges from comparing manufacturer's specifications to comprehensive device testing, either with patients or on the bench. Good device evaluations help guide decisions about device selection, procedure development, and risk and failure analysis. Poor evaluations cost time and money and fail to return value. Manufa...

In peer-to-peer (P2P) environments, a peer needs to interact with unknown peers for the services provided. This requires the trust evaluation prior to and posterior to interactions. This paper presents Trust: a novel and dynamic peer trust evaluation model, which aims to measure the credibility of peers’ recommendations, and thus to filter noise in responses and obtain more accurate and objecti...