Latency Insensitive Protocols (LIP) and Elastic Circuits (EC) solve the same problem of rendering a design tolerant to additional latencies caused by wires or computational elements. They are performance-limited by a firing semantics that enforces coherency through a lazy evaluation rule: Computation is enabled if all inputs to a block are simultaneously available. Adaptive LIP’s (ALIP) and EC ...

There is a growing interest in new or modified research methods that can balance the needs for quick results and statistical rigor in studies of intervention effectiveness. Orthogonal design, which has been extensively used in manufacturing and other fields but not in published health care evaluations or comparative effectiveness research (CER), affords an opportunity to design interventions in...

DNS Tunnels are built through proper tools that allow embedding data on DNS queries and response. Each tool has its own approach to the building tunnels in DNS that differently affects the network performance. In this paper, we propose a brief architectural analysis of the current state-of-the-art of DNS Tunneling tools. Then, wepropose the first comparative analysis of such tools in term of pe...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify key variables that affect the quantifiable key performance indicators (KPIs) and to derive equations to measure these indicators. Qualitative KPIs are also discussed in terms of the aspects that need to be covered while carrying out qualitative performance assessment. Design/methodology/approach – A combination of literature and an industry opi...

Sustainable development, as a concept of controlled development, is a management characteristic. Adaptation to progress is important to achieve sustainability. The research focus here is on developing an evaluation methodology for determining the characteristics of urban open space. A method was designed for use in the comparative analysis of environmental perception evaluation between differen...

Economic evaluation involves the comparative analysis of the costs and consequences of alternative programmes or interventions. It has increasingly been used to inform decision making about healthcare in the United Kingdom and other industrialised nations. Randomised controlled trials are commonly used as a vehicle for economic evaluations. Indeed, many funders, such as the UK National Institut...

The paper proposes an approach to comparative usability evaluation that incorporates important relevant criteria identified in previous work. It applies the proposed approach to a case study of a comparative evaluation of an academic website employing four widely-used usability evaluation methods (UEMs): heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthroughs, think-aloud protocol and co-discovery learning.

In this paper we argue that comparative evaluation in anaphora resolution has to be performed using the same pre-processing tools and on the same set of data. The paper proposes an evaluation environment for comparing anaphora resolution algorithms which is illustrated by presenting the results of the comparative evaluation of three methods on the basis of several evaluation measures.

The contribution reports on an evaluation of efforts to improve MT quality by domain adaptation, for both rule-based and statistical MT, as done in the ACCURAT project (Skadiņa et al. 2012). Comparative evaluation shows an increase of about 5% for both MT paradigms after system adaptation; absolute evaluation shows an increase in adequacy and fluency for SMT. While the RMT solution is superior ...