introduction: medical records department (mrd) is important for evaluating, planning and prioritizing health care services. the major aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of the mrds of hospitals using multi-criteria decision-making approach in the selected hospitals of isfahan city, iran. methods: this was an analytical and cross-sectional study that was conducted in spring 2008 i...

performance evaluation is one of the most important management agendas as key to achieving continuous improvement in the ability to evaluate the ongoing performance of the organization. many organizations have realized the importance of ongoing evaluation of performance and performance appraisal systems employ a variety of organizations. in this regard between 1850 and 1975, only on the basis o...

IMUTUS (Interactive Music Tuition System) is a EU project that aims to develop a practising environment for the recorder, combining new technologies and new approaches for music learning. Automatic analysis and evaluation of student performances play a central role in the student-system interaction. The performance evaluation module identifies typical performance errors, and provides feedback t...

Several prototypes for predicting the short-term market reaction to news based on text mining techniques have been developed. However, no detailed comparison of the systems and their performances is available thus far. This paper describes the main systems developed and presents a framework for comparing the approaches. The prototypes differ in the text mining methods applied and the data sets ...