Benchmarking in water project analysis

Performance Benchmarking Analysis of Japanese Water Utilities

Although the Japanese water sector is economically and socially important, few empirical studies are available to help analysts and policy-makers understand the performance patterns in the industry. This study applies non-parametric methods to 5,538 observations on 1144 utilities that supplied drinking water between 2004 and 2007. With a comprehensive census of utilities, the present study cont...

BENCHOP - The BENCHmarking project in option pricing

Benchmarking initiatives in the water industry.

Customer satisfaction and service care are every day pushing professionals in the water industry to seek to improve their performance, lowering costs and increasing the provided service level. Process Benchmarking is generally recognised as a systematic mechanism of comparing one's own utility with other utilities or businesses with the intent of self-improvement by adopting structures or metho...

Benchmarking of Face Recognition Systems - Project BioFace

This article reports about the project BioFace, within the scope of which face recognition systems available to the market were tested. The main focus of the project was on the one hand side benchmarking of biometric face recognition algorithms operating on large scale datasets with approx. 50,000 test samples. On the other hand a system test was conducted to determine face recognition system c...

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Arsenic Water Supply Project in Bangladesh

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is widely used to assess the investment criteria where cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is not economically feasible to apply. CBA is generally used where there is a commercial motive whereas CEA is used where service motive is prioritized. Thus, it is mainly applicable to evaluate social projects where the beneficiaries are scattered in any area or the society at l...