Management theory and practice suggest a wide range of instruments used in organizations in order to measure performance, whether individual or organizational. The purpose of this paper is to mention some of these tools, with an emphasis on the balanced scorecard. Although numerous organizations have adopted the balanced scorecard as a means to increase organizational performance, few of them h...

This paper is concerned with the measurement of company performance in the context of the IBIS panel data set of large Australian firms. The analysis provides a framework which distinguishes between: ‘static,’ ‘comparative static’ and ‘dynamic’ measures; and ‘partial,’ ‘multiple’ and ‘total’ measures. The chapter demonstrates that all of these measures are related to economic measures of firm p...

NetSniff is an IP traffic analysis tool currently used in low traffic scenarios. Before deployment under higher traffic scenarios, it is important to perform a study into the processing and live capture performance of NetSniff. We have previously investigated the processing performance of NetSniff, in this technical report we subject NetSniff to a performance evaluation with regard to live capt...

NetSniff is an IP traffic analysis tool currently used in low traffic scenarios. Before deployment under higher traffic scenarios, it is important to perform a study into the processing and live traffic capture performance of NetSniff. In this technical report we subject NetSniff to a series of processing performance evaluations in an attempt to determine the limitations of NetSniff with regard...

Measurements that capture website performance have long enabled businesses to improve strategies and operations. For an eCommerce website, there exists a limited understanding on how performance is measured. Measuring the performance of a website has been proposed in many ways and various contexts over the past decade. The study presented in this article used the owner perspective to theoretica...

Principles and applications are described for a new method for measuring the shielding performance of materials. The new method avoids the problems of common mode signal linkage to observations circuits, is fair to materials of various constructions and provides the basis for matching shielding performance to specific practical applications.

Nowadays, multithreaded architectures are becoming more and more popular. In fact, many processor vendors have already shipped processors with multithreaded features. Regardless of this push on multithreaded processors, still today there is not a clear procedure that defines how to measure the behavior of a multithreaded processor. This paper presents FAME, a new evaluation methodology aimed to...

Bearing in mind the changeable and complicated needs of business environment, in this paper we examine the necessity of evolution in the traditional decision support techniques. Our aim is to intensify the need for integrated performance measurement and management, as a way to ameliorate the existing tools for decision making, which are currently based on historical data. Because of the nature ...

Regarding to rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment it will become increasingly important for organizations to measure their performances appropriately. With respect to special characteristics of pharmaceutical industry and lack of reported performance measurement, this study tries to design an integrated performance measurement model for pharmaceutical companies. For gene...