This research has objective to develop a model of key performance indicators (KPI) measurement in higher education institution. The proposed model is based on combination between AHP, trend analysis and comparative data.. KPIs are determined as description of key success factors related to institution sustainability. These KPIs are chategorized into academic, research and supporting KPI. Each K...

A new and simple greenhouse crop transpiration model enabling predictions from outdoor conditions is presented and the parameters involved are discussed with respect to different types of greenhouse-crop systems. This transpiration model was validated against experimental data measured in a soil-less tomato crop cultivation in Avignon in summer conditions, when the greenhouse is open, and early...

1. The paper presents brief descriptions of various cell suppression software packages, focussing on availability, costs, platforms, and the underlying methodology. The systems performances will be compared with respect to information loss, and computing time requirement; other key qualities of the software will be discussed.

The X-ray satellite BeppoSAX 1 , a major programme of the Italian space agency with participation of the Dutch space agency, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on April 30, 1996. After a 2 months period devoted to engineering check out that confirmed the nominal functionality of the satellite and the scientific payload, we have performed a series of observations of celestial objects ...

For millennia, music has been a performance-based artform open to continuous variation and reinterpretation. More recently however, industrialisation has allowed for the mass-production of sound recordings, in turn bringing conjecture about the changed nature of music reception in society. This article reflects on related practice-based work by its authors and examines aspects of music producti...

We present a diagnosis system which combines the outputs of several classifiers performing local generation on the French Telephone Network. This data fusion process takes into account alarms occurring at different times and space locations. This allows to considerably improve upon the performances of a previous diagnosis system which relies only on local decisions.

In this paper we address the issue realizing efficient and equitable utilization of limited resources by collective decision of interacting heterogeneous agents. There is no presumption that collective action of interacting agents leads to collectively satisfactory results without any central authority. How well agents do for it in adapting to their environment is not the same thing as how sati...

The aim of this paper is to describe how the combination of speaker veri cation algorithms with a priori decision thresholds can improve the overall robustness of a real application. The evaluation is performed in the context of a eld application where each client is veri ed from a 7 digit pin code. This paper demonstrate that it is possible to increase the global performances of the system on ...

During the last years a great number of Query Performance Prediction methods have been proposed. However, this explosion of prediction method proposals have not been paralleled by an in-depth study of suitable methods to evaluate these estimations. In this paper we analyse the current approaches to evaluate Query Performance Prediction methods, highlighting some limitations they present. We als...

In this note statistical approaches to modelling sporting performances are discussed. Final year projects based on such modelling have proved popular in the past. With the upsurge in interest in the next Olympic Games in London in 2012, such modelling could provide teachers of statistics with a rich source of meaningful student projects. Students may be more motivated to do such projects simply...