The design and use of Performance Measurement Systems (PMS) have been widely investigated in management studies. However, recent work has highlighted the potential importance of treating design and use not as separate dimensions, but rather as mutually entangled features, calling for further research into their interaction. Focus-ing on a specific, widely adopted performance technique, the Bala...

Information in a statistical experiment is often measured through the determinant of its information matrix. Under first order normal linear models, the determinant of the information matrix of a two-level factorial experiment neither depends on where the experiment is centered, nor on how it is oriented, and balanced allocations are more informative than unbalanced ones with the same number of...

1. Introduction These designs were introduced by Yates in order to eliminate heterogeneity to a greater extent than is possible with randomized blocks and Latin squares when the number of treatments is large. The precision of the estimate of a treatment effect depends on the number of replications of the treatment-the larger the number of replications, the more is the precision. Similar is the ...

Linear value function approximation in Markov decision processes (MDPs) has been studied extensively, but there are several challenges when applying such techniques to partially observable MDPs (POMDPs). Furthermore, the system designer often has to choose a set of basis functions. We propose an automatic method to derive a suitable set of basis functions by exploiting the structure of factored...

This paper distinguishes the three fundamental business design patterns: control, cooperation and autonomy. Today, most e-Business designs are not balanced, because they over-prioritize control. Balance is achieved when one basic pattern is the top priority, while the other two patterns are not ignored. The paper explains how to use these patterns to create one of three balanced e-Business desi...

We develop optimal design theory for additive partially nonlinear regression models, and show that D-optimal designs can be found as the products of the corresponding D-optimal designs in one dimension. For partially nonlinear models, D-optimal designs depend on the unknown nonlinear model parameters, and misspeci_cations of these parameters can lead to poor designs. Hence we generalise our res...

The design of membrane-based Schottky planar diode frequency triplers to 1.9 THz is discussed. Both, balanced and unbalanced circuit designs are proposed and compared. The simulations show that with 2.5 to 3.5 mW of input power the balanced triplers can produce sufficient power to pump hot electron bolometer mixers. However, if the available input power is limited to 1 mW then the unbalanced de...

reconfiguration (PR) enhances traditional FPGA-based high-performance reconfigurable computing by providing additional benefits such as reduced area and memory requirements, increased performance, and increased functionality. However, since leveraging these additional benefits requires specific designer expertise, which increases design time, PR has not yet gained widespread usage. Even though ...

This paper presents a design-for-testability technique, called partially parallel scan chain ( PPSC ), which aims at reduction of test length for sequential circuits. Since the partially parallel scan chain allows to control and observe subset of flip-flops (FFs) concurrently during scan shift operations, the number of scan shift clocks is reduced.