With the release of the COSMIC (Common Software Measurement International Consortium) measurement method version 3.0 in September 2007, the COSMIC FSM (Functional Size Measurement) method has reached a stable and mature status. Almost 10 years after its inception, COSMIC has proved itself to be a valuable functional sising method for a broad range of different software types and domains, includ...

The need for computer-based intelligent techniques for recruitment and retention of employees in a highly competitive global market has grown significantly in the last decade. Salesperson recruitment is a critical task for most organisations. Existing approaches for salesperson recruitment primarily rely on filtering of applications based on selection criteria followed by interviews. Some organ...

Virtual Screening (VS) is designed to prospectively help identifying potential hits, i.e., compounds capable of interacting with a given target and potentially modulate its activity, out of large compound collections. Among the variety of methodologies, it is crucial to select the protocol that is the most adapted to the query/target system under study and that yields the most reliable output. ...

Creation and improvement of tools for digital preservation is a difficult task without an established way to assess any progress in their quality. This happens due to low presence of solid evidence and a lack of accessible approaches to create such evidence. Software benchmarking, as an empirical method, is used in various fields to provide objective evidence about the quality of software tools...

Benchmarking data sets have become common in recent years for the purpose of virtual screening, though the main focus had been placed on the structure-based virtual screening (SBVS) approaches. Due to the lack of crystal structures, there is great need for unbiased benchmarking sets to evaluate various ligand-based virtual screening (LBVS) methods for important drug targets such as G protein-co...

Benchmarking is an important phase in developing any new software technique because it helps to validate the underlying theory in the specific problem domain. But benchmarking of new software strategies is a very complex problem, because it is difficult (if not impossible) to test, validate and verify the results of the various schemes in completely different settings. This is even more true in...

Steigende Energiekosten und ambitionierte Klimaschutzziele erhöhen den Handlungsbedarf, die Energieeffizienz zu steigern. Um einen Vergleich eine Entscheidungshilfe von Energieeffizienzmaßnahmen für energieintensive Galvanobranche schaffen, wurde ein Energie- Ressourceneffizienzbenchmark durchgeführt. Herausforderungen bei der Erhebung waren Heterogenität sowie unterschiedliche Messinfrastruktu...

BACKGROUND New, silicon-based multielectrodes comprising hundreds or more electrode contacts offer the possibility to record spike trains from thousands of neurons simultaneously. This potential cannot be realized unless accurate, reliable automated methods for spike sorting are developed, in turn requiring benchmarking data sets with known ground-truth spike times. NEW METHOD We here present...

Even though the idea of benchmarking is not a new one to improve the performance of enterprises, the methods and tools which accompany its application are rarely formalized. Therefore, this paper presents a method of diagnosis and three methods of data analysis in order to realize the first five steps of the benchmarking process.