Software metrics are widely accepted tools to control and assure software quality. A large number of software metrics with a variety of content can be found in the literature. Software metrics are widely accepted tools to control and assure software quality. A large number of software metrics with a variety of content can be found in the literature. In this paper, different software complexity ...

The IETF has developed a one-way packet loss metric that measures the loss rate on a Poisson and Periodic probe streams between two hosts. However, the impact of packet loss on applications is, in general, sensitive not just to the average loss rate but also to the way in which packet losses are distributed in loss episodes (i.e., maximal sets of consecutively lost probe packets). This document...

Authors: Steven Ashby (LLNL), David H. Bailey (LBNL), Maurice Blackmon (UCAR), Patrick Bohrer (IBM), Kirk Cameron (U. SC), Carleton DeTar (U. Utah), Jack Dongarra (U. Tenn.), Douglas Dwoyer (NASA Langley), Peter Freeman (NSF), Ahmed Gheith (IBM), Brent Gorda (LBNL), Guy Hammer (DOD-MDA), Wesley Felter (IBM), Jeremy Kepner (MIT/LL), David Koester (MITRE), Sally McKee (Cornell), David Nelson (DOE...

One frequently needs to compare the performance of two or more parallel computers; but how should this be done? The most straightforward way to do this would be to rely upon a suite of benchmarks. Unfortunately, there are many problems and limitations with this approach. Therefore, one is frequently forced to rely upon a combination of approaches. Unfortunately, many of the alternative approach...

The literature on human training performance has long attested to the behavioral differences between experts and novices, in which ‘competency’ is a demonstrable attribute based on a person’s course of action in problem solving. The advances in technology have made it possible to trace players’ actions and behaviors (as user-generated data) within an online serious gaming environment for perfor...