The development of software tools for performance evaluation and modeling has been an active research area since the early years of computer science. In this paper, we offer a short overview of historical evolution of the field with an emphasis on popular performance modeling techniques such as queuing networks and Petri nets. A review of recent works that provide new perspectives to software t...

This document provides a tutorial on performance characterization in computer vision. It explains why learning to characterize the performances of vision techniques is crucial to the discipline’s development. It describes the usual procedure for evaluating vision algorithms and its statistical basis. The use of a software tool, a so-called test harness, for performing such evaluations is descri...

We describe here a collection of heuristics for producing “nice”drawings of directed graphs, and a simple dual-mode software tool for testing and evaluating them. In playing mode, the heuristics are applied in random sequence over a set of drawings, in the manner of an asynchronous team (A-team). As new drawings are added to the set, others are deleted based on a multi-valued aesthetic evaluati...

As the Internet grows in scale and complexity, the need for accurate traffic measurement increases. Among the different parameters relevant to traffic measurement, the paper pays attention to the available bandwidth of a path. In particular, a performance comparison of three different techniques, devoted to available bandwidth measurement, is attained under different operating conditions. The c...

This article reports a new method and tools for exaggerated realtime character animation control method for full-body gesture interaction systems. Game Action Motion Interaction Controller (GAMIC) is a motion interaction design tool that can be used by motion interaction designer with KINECT, WiiRemote, it comprises a generic evaluation function with thresholds and does not require any addition...

Objectives: One of the problems in the process of assessment and evaluation, especially of clinical training in rehabilitation disciplines, is the lack of an instrument with objective criteria for evaluation. Considering the effects of appropriate evaluation on quality assurance of clinical training, the aim of the present study was to design a valid and reliable tool for general evaluation of ...

Why evaluate primary care? Although the strengthening of primary care services is a priority of health reforms in many countries throughout the WHO European Region, the backgrounds to and reasons for the reforms vary. In western Europe, emphasis on primary care is expected to provide an answer to rising costs and changing demand resulting from demographic and epidemiological trends. Central and...

The Unified Modeling Language is widely used today in different stages of system development. A growing number of tools that support the UML notation are available. Evaluation of these tools is important so as to be able to choose among them the best suited to the job. Designing and developing a metric to conduct such evaluation is the first step in the assessment process. To be able to constru...