Organisations are under constant pressure from governments and industry to implement risk management methods. There are various information security risk management methods available that organisations can implement, and each has different approaches to identifying, measuring, controlling and monitoring the information security risks. Organisations find it difficult to select an information sec...

Performance measurement in the health-care sector is a challenging task due to the wide variety in performance metrics and their interpretation. It is essential to develop a robust methodology to evaluate health-care performance since substantial and increasing amount of public resources are dedicated to health-care. With this goal in mind, this paper proposes a fuzzy decision making framework ...

This paper is based on extensive studies of MT evaluation methods and practical comparative evaluation experience testing major MT systems such as Systran, Metal, Logos, Ariane. Evaluation studies were carried out within the framework of a Ph.D., on behalf of the EC Commission, and the London based computer consultancy OVUM. The paper begins with some general observations on the state of the ar...

The solution of the e-Learning is one of the most discussed priorities of modern universities. The whole problem lies in the global approach of which strategy must use to create e-Learning system. This paper describes an evaluation model for some of the existent methodologies used to create e-Learning system. The evaluation model is based on a comparative analysis: strategies, formation, and em...

We propose a comparative performance evaluation method for security protocols. We start by constructing a security protocol model where we assign a cost functions for each cryptographic operation. For each class of cryptographic operations (e.g. symmetric encryption, asymmetric decryption), we construct a polynomial function based on an exhaustive performance evaluation of cryptographic combina...

The present work was aimed at formulation development, evaluation and comparative study of the effects of superdisintegrants in Cefixime 50 mg oral disintegrating tablets. The superdisintegrants used for the present study were sodium starch glycolate and crosscarmellose sodium. The formulated tablets were evaluated for various tableting properties, like hardness, thickness, friability, weight v...

The applications of mathematical simulations of tissue tem perature distributions in hyperthermia treatments are discussed in terms of four areas, comparative, prospective, concurrent, and retrospective thermal dosimetry. These four aspects of thermal dosimetry cover the range of hyperthermia applications of interest to clinicians, from comparative evaluation of compet itive heating modalities ...

This paper presents a new rule-based method to identify Spanish zero pronouns. The paper describes the comparative evaluation of a baseline method for the identification of zero pronouns with an approach that supplements the baseline by adding a set of restrictions treating impersonal sentences and other zero subject expressions. The identification rules have been tested on a new corpus in whic...