The aim of the paper is to introduce an application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for benchmarking the efficiency of (tourism) service production processes on the level of tourism destinations. After a brief discussion of the latest benchmarking research studies in tourism, an efficiency model for tourism service processes will be developed (Parasuraman 2002). The latter postulates simulta...

Today’s database benchmarks are designed to evaluate a particular type of database. Furthermore, popular benchmarks, like those from TPC, come without a ready-to-use implementation requiring database benchmark users to implement the benchmarking tool from scratch. The result of this is that there is no single framework that can be used to compare arbitrary database systems. The primary reason f...

Research in optimization algorithm design is often accompanied by benchmarking a new algorithm. Some benchmarking is done as a proof-of-concept, by demonstrating the new algorithm works on a small number of difficult test problems. Alternately, some benchmarking is done in order to demonstrate that the new algorithm in someway out-performs previous methods. In this circumstance it is important ...

Product-driven control may enable manufacturing companies to meet business demands more quickly and effectively. But a key point in making this concept acceptable by industry is to provide benchmarking environments in order to compare and analyze their efficiency on emulated large-scale industry-led case studies with regard to current technologies and approaches. In this paper, a benchmarking p...

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a fundamental and ubiquitous technique in bioinformatics used to infer related residues among biological sequences. Thus alignment accuracy is crucial to a vast range of analyses, often in ways difficult to assess in those analyses. To compare the performance of different aligners and help detect systematic errors in alignments, a number of benchmarking stra...

Although benchmarking technique has been widely used in various aspects of organisations and businesses, there is no clear framework on how the technique can be applied for Web evaluation. This article presents a framework for evaluating the usability and content usefulness of Web sites by using the benchmarking approach. It describes the purpose of evaluation, metrics to be used, and processes...

$150 billion/yr. in potential US energy savings, enhanced competitiveness, and reduced CO2 emissions depend on swiftly adopting Diagnostic Benchmarking. Expected savings consist mostly of no-cost Operating and Maintenance (“O&M”) improvements in existing buildings. Early energy audits required that O&M be improved before considering retrofits. But audits didn’t effectively identify O&M opportun...

Since the early 1980’s, many countries have implemented electricity sector reforms. Many of these reforms have unbundled the generation, transmission, distribution, and supply activities of the sector and introduced competition in generation and supply. An increasing number of countries are also adopting incentive regulation to promote efficiency improvement in the natural monopoly activities t...

The pressure on enterprises to manage and improve their environmental sustainability is steadily increasing. Despite the growing awareness in the IS community and business practice, current IS solutions remain in an initial state. Sustainability benchmarking is seen as a novel and effective tool in this context. However, sustainability benchmarking faces two major obstacles: First, the heteroge...

Benchmarking is an important process for companies to stay competitive in today’s markets. The basis for benchmarking are statistics of performance measures of a group of companies. The companies need to collaborate in order to compute these statistics. Protocols for privately computing statistics have been proposed in the literature. This paper designs, implements and evaluates a privacy-prese...