Successfully introducing a reuse program into an organization requires many things, such as proven processes, an organization for reuse, and management support. However, management needs to understand the value of reuse before they will allocate resources. Key to showing this value is a business case based on consistent, realistic, and easy to understand metrics. I have found that combining rea...

The metrics play increasingly fundamental role in the design, development, deployment and operation of telecommunication systems. Despite their importance, the studies of metrics are usually limited to a narrow area or a well-defined objective. Our study aims to more broadly survey the metrics that are commonly used for analyzing, developing and managing telecommunication networks in order to f...

We analyze how performance metrics that contain the same information a ect actual decisions. We consider two such metrics from inventory management, days of supply and inventory turn rate, where one is the inverse of the other. We argue that individuals tend to assess performance based on the metrics as opposed to the fundamental attributes that actually matter and develop behavioral models tha...

nowadays, with the development of human societies and more mastery over the environment, to environmental changes caused by the faster and wider than before the occurrence of the joins. so having the necessary information about these changes and to manage the natural order is essential to sustainable ecosystems, metrics of landscape is tools landscape situation are few mechanisms that cause the...

Measuring rhythm similarity is relevant for the analysis and generation of music. Existing similarity metrics tend to consider our perception of rhythms as homogeneous in time without discriminating the importance of some regions from others. On a previously reported experiment we observed that measures of similarity may differ given the presence or absence of a pulse inducing sound and the imp...

This paper presents a probabilistic framework, QARLA, for the evaluation of text summarisation systems. The input of the framework is a set of manual (reference) summaries, a set of baseline (automatic) summaries and a set of similarity metrics between summaries. It provides i) a measure to evaluate the quality of any set of similarity metrics, ii) a measure to evaluate the quality of a summary...

This paper outlines the development of an improved approach to the use of lean tools and techniques to improve the performance of manufacturing enterprises. Several research studies attempt to measure the overall leanness score of the manufacturing process; however, they failed to consider the interdependent relationships between lean performance metrics and considered all performance measures ...

in this paper, we study a special class of generalized douglas-weyl metrics whose douglas curvature is constant along any finslerian geodesic. we prove that for every landsberg metric in this class of finsler metrics, ? = 0 if and only if h = 0. then we show that every finsler metric of non-zero isotropic flag curvature in this class of metrics is a riemannian if and only if ? = 0.