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System performance measurements
2017This chapter introduces performance and acceptance testing and describes state-of-the-art tools, methods, and instruments to assess the plant performance or realize plant acceptance testing. The status of the development of standards for performance assessment is given.
Herrmann, Ulf (Prof. Dr.-Ing.) +3 more
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Performance Measurement Systems
2010This chapter introduces the Performance Measurement Systems (PMS), the most renowned model being the Balanced Scorecard. A PMS combines and organises the performance indicators in order to achieve performance measures. Their evolution is traced over the years until the revolutionary changes provided by the adoption of Business Intelligence technologies
Stefano Tonchia, Luca Quagini
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Performance measures for estimating vector systems
1999 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Proceedings. ICASSP99 (Cat. No.99CH36258), 1999We propose a framework of performance measures for analyzing estimators of geometrical vectors that have intuitive physical interpretations, are independent of the coordinate frame and parameterization, and have no artificial singularities. We obtain finite-sample and asymptotic lower bounds on them for large classes of estimators and show how they may
Arye Nehorai, Malcolm Hawkes
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1981
It is ironic that whilst many MIS exist to provide intelligence and feedback for planning and control, monitoring and measurement of the MIS themselves is frequently inadequate. System performance should be measured for three reasons: (1) to ascertain whether the MIS has met its stated objectives; (2) to ensure that the ongoing MIS operates reliably ...
Andrew M. McCosh +2 more
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It is ironic that whilst many MIS exist to provide intelligence and feedback for planning and control, monitoring and measurement of the MIS themselves is frequently inadequate. System performance should be measured for three reasons: (1) to ascertain whether the MIS has met its stated objectives; (2) to ensure that the ongoing MIS operates reliably ...
Andrew M. McCosh +2 more
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Performance measurement system
Total Quality Management, 2002This paper explains the importance of measuring performance and presents the Kanji Business Excellence Measurement System (KBEMS). An overview of performance measurement reveals that traditional systems have several drawbacks and do not fully support business excellence. KBEMS overcomes some of the limitations of current performance measurement systems
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Measuring the performance of implemented multirate systems
1996 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Conference Proceedings, 2002Multirate systems play an important role in modern telecommunication. Examples of their application are filter banks for image or speech coding, transmultiplexers, sampling rate converters, and block processing systems. Usually they are designed under idealizing assumptions, neglecting wordlength effects as well as the required coding between analysis ...
Frank Heinle, Hans Wilhelm Schüßler
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Quantitative models for performance measurement system
International Journal of Production Economics, 2000This paper describes works at the Centre for Strategic Manufacturing, University of Strathclyde on developing Quantitative Models for Performance Measurement Systems (QMPMS) using cognitive maps, cause and effect diagrams, tree diagrams, and the analytic hierarchy process.
Bititci, Umit +2 more
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Systems performance/measurements
Proceedings of the May 6-10, 1974, national computer conference and exposition on - AFIPS '74, 1974Systems Performance/Measurements is a new area of computer technology which provides a quantitative base for management of data processing systems. This function has generated high interest due to increasing emphasis on cost effective management of these data processing systems.
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Measuring and comparing the performance of biometric systems
Information Security Technical Report, 1998Abstract This paper describes some of the issues in measuring the performance of biometric systems. The aim is to explain what the often quoted measures such as the False Acceptance Rate and False Rejection Rate are actually measuring, and why performance in real applications can be significantly at odds with the manufacturer's quoted rates.
Tony Mansfield, Gavin Kelly
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A Critique of Health System Performance Measurement
International Journal of Health Services, 2015Health system performance measurement is a ubiquitous phenomenon. Many authors have identified multiple methodological and substantive problems with performance measurement practices. Despite the validity of these criticisms and their cross-national character, the practice of health system performance measurement persists. Theodore Marmor suggests that
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