SHARPE is a well known package in the field of reliability and performability, used in universities as well as in companies. A modeler who is familiar with many different kinds of models, can easily choose models that best suit a particular system and the kind of measure that is needed at each stage of the design. It is also possible to use different kinds of models hierarchically for different...

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We discuss advantages and challenges of our ongoing implementation of a GPU-based, parallel interaction nets evaluator.

Responding to similarity, difference, and relative magnitude is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom. However, humans seem unique in the ability to represent relative magnitude and similarity as abstract relations that take arguments (e.g., greater-than (x,y)). While many models use structured relational representations of magnitude and similarity, little progress has been made on how these represe...

If multiple evaluators analyse the outcomes of a single user test, the agreement between their lists of identified usability problems tends to be limited. This is called the ‘evaluator effect’. In the present paper, three user tests, taken from various domains, are reported and evaluator effects were measured. In all three studies, the evaluator effect proved to be less than in Jacobsen et al.'...

This paper describes the application of comparison training (CT) for automatic feature weight tuning, with the final objective of improving the evaluation functions used in Chinese chess programs. First, we propose an n-tuple network to extract features, since n-tuple networks require very little expert knowledge through its large numbers of features, while simulta-neously allowing easy access....

Although academics are increasingly expected to undertake studies of their practice, particularly where this involves the use of learning technology, experience to date suggests that meeting this expectation has proved difficult. This paper attempts to explain this difficulty. After reviewing literature that provides a rationale for practitioner evaluation, the experiences of three projects (EF...

Devising an appropriate scheme that assigns the weights to share credits among multiple authors of a paper is a challenging task. This challenge comes from the fact that different types of conventions might be followed among different research discipline or research groups. In this paper, we discuss that for the purpose of evaluating the quality of research produced by authors, one can resequen...

B.Bones and breast shadows: Inspect the bones for radiographic density, fractures, lytic lesions, or bony deformity. Eval¬ uate the breast shadows for gross asymmetry, evidence of prior surgery, and any gross calcification. C.Cardiac silhouette: Assess the cardiac silhouette for gen¬ eral size and contour. D.Diaphgram: Assess the diaphgram(s) with attention to the contour and costaphrenic angle...