Government endorsed security product evaluations completed between 1984 and 1999 show a number of interesting trends. According to official lists maintained by the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, 242 products were evaluated since the first U.S. evaluations in 1984. The evaluations show trends in the number of evaluations performed, which evaluations are performed and where, what e...

The use of flexible hydrological model structures for hypothesis testing requires an objective and diagnostic method to identify whether a rainfall-runoff model structure is suitable for a certain catchment. To determine if a model structure is realistic, i.e. if it captures the relevant runoff processes, both performance and consistency are important. We define performance as the ability of a ...

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to evaluate and visualize the classifier performance in two-class imbalanced domains. This method defines a two-dimensional space by combining the geometric mean of class accuracies and a new metric that gives an indication of how balanced they are. A given point in this space represents a certain trade-off between those two measures, which will be exp...

Background and Objectives: Outsourcing has been considered by hospital managers as a model to reduce the financial burden and modify the financial system. The external suppliers must be qualified for the services they ought to provide to the hospitals. The use of the Balance Scorecard and the Analysis of Hierarchical Process can help assessing suppliers' capability to solve exi...

site selection is an important and necessary issue for waste management in fast-growing regions. because of the complexity of waste management systems, the selection of the appropriate solid waste landfill site requires consideration of multiple alternative solutions and evaluation criteria. this paper addresses the sitting of a new landfill using a multi-criteria decision analysis (mcda) and o...

introduction: today, medical software are used in different aspects of healthcare varying from simple data processing to collection and interpretation of physiological information and education of nurses and physicians. to ensure use of medical software, they must be constantly evaluated based on specific criteria. since there is no organized evaluation system and comprehensive criteria for eva...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2009.01.005 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 33412500x6103 E-mail addresses: [email protected], whydec6 [email protected] (G.-H. Tzeng), j02255@ji-ee The paper proposed a Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making (FMCDM) approach for banking performance evaluation. Drawing on the four perspectives of a Balanced Scorec...

Home-based consistency model, a variant of lazy release consistency model (LRC), is a recent development in the DSM field that has open out many areas for further research and development. In this paper, we present 2 adaptive schemes for home-based DSM systems: home migration and dynamic adaptation between write-invalidation and writeupdate protocols. The two fully automatic schemes are in line...