It has been found that design creativity is closely related with personal characteristics and design-related abilities. To verify this fact systematically, I inspected personal characteristics and learning styles. Moreover I assessed spatial perceptual ability, constructive perceptual ability and visual reasoning ability as design-related ability. Also, students were received several designrela...

Ishiguro(2004) shows that discriminatory wage schemes are optimal among collusion-proof contracts under relative performance evaluation when agents collude. However, that analysis depends on the assumption that the agents cannot observe their performances. We investigate how optimal contracts should be modified when the agents observe the realized firm value. We show that the optimal collusion-...

Understanding how performances vary across a large number of variants of a configurable software system is important for helping stakeholders to choose a desirable variant. Given a software system with n optional features, measuring all its 2 possible configurations to determine their performances is usually infeasible. Thus, various techniques have been proposed to predict software performance...

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...

Solar water heating (SWH) systems are gaining popularity in ASEAN in the midst of increasing number of affluent population in society and environmental concerns from seemingly unchanged reliance on fossil-based fuels. The penetration of these systems and technologies into ASEAN markets is a welcome development; however there is a need for the method of assessment of their thermal performances. ...

We report the results of an early performance evaluation of the SiCortex SC648 that contains 648 processor-cores. Performance was measured using microbenchmarks to evaluate node and network performance, and with real-world parallel scientific applications. The SiCortex machines are notable for a number of architectural innovations, including the use of a custom, very low power, six-core process...

Even though diverse digital watermarking algorithm was developed to protect copyright, existing methods vary in performances according to image characteristics. While there are simple methods suitable for black and white images like medical images, there is an algorithm which shows the performance in complicated images like general nature images. Because of these reasons, evaluation metrics to ...

in the information and communication era, management information systems play an undeniable role in organizations.  bank parsian is a iranian banking and financial services company, which has a network of 273 banking branch, known as the largest iranian private bank. this research examines the gaps in customer relationships systems in bank parsian based on characteristics of management informat...