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...

Software performance is an important non-functional quality attribute and software performance evaluation is an essential activity in the software development process. Especially in embedded real-time systems, software design and evaluation are driven by the needs to optimize the limited resources, to respect time deadlines and, at the same time, to produce the best experience for end-users. So...

This paper presents a kind of application of the software performance engineering to the area of agent-based systems. In a first part we will describe the general aspects and contents of multi agent systems (MAS) architectures. Then, a short presentation of the main software performance principles should motivate the measurement approaches for the MAS. Software agents can be intelligent as well...

Unit testing is an attractive quality management tool in the software development process, however, practical obstacles make it difficult to use unit tests for performance testing. We present Stochastic Performance Logic, a formalism for expressing performance requirements, together with interpretations that facilitate performance evaluation in the unit test context. The formalism and the inter...

Early and rigorous performance analysis of component-based systems is a crucial issue in software engineering to guarantee that the developed components and their assemblies will satisfy their quality requirements. We propose an original approach, called the CB-SPE, for component-based software performance engineering. CB-SPE relies on, and adapts to a CB framework, the concepts and steps of th...