This paper proposes a new approach for gauging the performance of branch managers of a financial institution by defining a Measure of Internal Performance (MIP). Our proposal is different from others existing in the literature in two main aspects. Firstly, it is consistent with the requirements of internal evaluation because it uses the managers’ real preferences instead of assuming them. Secon...

We study career choice when competition for promotion is a contest. A more meritocratic profession always succeeds in attracting the highest ability types, whereas a profession with superior promotion benefits attracts high types only if the hazard rate of the noise in performance evaluation is strictly increasing. Raising promotion opportunities produces no systematic effect on the talent dist...

In spite of the great success of many distance learning programs, how to evaluate the behavior of student performance in an o€-line distance learning course still remains a question. If visiting Web course content is a basic requirement of performance assessment , it is possible to make an automatic tool to help the instructor and the students in terms of Web interaction analysis. This paper pr...

Wireless sensor networks are expected to revolutionize our abilities in sensing and controlling the physical environment. Power conservation is a primary research concern for these networks, due to the limited energy resources of the sensor nodes. In this paper we study the data delivery approaches, suitable for hierarchical cluster based wireless sensor networks. A radio energy dissipation mod...

The aim of this study is to combine the practice of reflective teaching and technology. With the help of a group created on Facebook which was accessible only to the group members taking part in the reflective teaching process, an interactive discussion environment was created and the student teachers commented on each others’ performances based on the diaries prepared after each practice. Afte...

Benchmarking of watermarking algorithms is a complicated task that requires examination of a set of mutually dependent performance factors (algorithm complexity, decoding/detection performance, and perceptual quality). This paper will focus on detection/decoding performance evaluation and try to summarize its basic principles. A methodology for deriving the corresponding performance metrics wil...