Benchmarking is the continuous process of measuring products, services and practices against competitors recognised as industry leaders. This study focuses on understanding and explaining the problems that confront companies which implement benchmarking practices. Attention is centralized on two aspects of the process that lead to these problems. Benchmarking is an exogenous process for the com...

The test signal method can be used to measure and model inductance parameters (self and mutual) of a very small interconnect especially in highdensity IC’s by using a test signal (of small known amplitude and frequency) and a D.C. signal along with a Differential circuit. Other measurement techniques such as LCZ and TDR for measuring inductance parameters are faced with limitations of L values ...

In this paper we propose a new approach to XML benchmarking – a flexible XML query benchmark called FlexBench. The flexibility is given by two aspects. Firstly, FlexBench involves a large set of testing data characteristics so that a user can precisely describe the application. And, secondly, FlexBench is able to adapt the set of testing query templates to the particular set of synthesized test...

We describe the effect of a particular form of “noise” in benchmarking. We investigate the source of anomalous measurement data in a series of optimization strategies that attempt to improve data cache performance in the garbage collector of a Java virtual machine. The results of our experiments can be explained in terms of the difference in code positioning, and hence instruction and data cach...

A Many crucial aspects of service management are multifaceted. However, the traditional approach to measuring complex dimensions such as service quality clearly is inadequate. Essentially, this study integrated the five dimensions of SERVQUAL and adopted a fuzzy set theory based research design. The five dimensions of SERVQUAL were tested for five hospitals using Fuzzy set theory to clar...

Proper benchmarking and resource measurement is an important topic, because benchmarking is a widely-used method for the comparative evaluation of tools and algorithms in many research areas. It is essential for researchers, tool developers, and users, as well as for competitions. We formulate a set of requirements that are indispensable for reproducible benchmarking and reliable resource measu...

Market demand of the  perishable bakery  products are volatile. Hence, demand of such items are random variable. The most appealing demand distribution of such items is lognormal demand distribution. Using historical data, the parameters of lognormal distribution are obtained. But, there is a problem of overestimation or underestimation of the parameters. Fuzzy triangular numbers are used to ov...

We introduce a theory of ranking sets of accomplishments in the presence of objectively incomparable marginal contributions (apples and oranges). Our theory recommends benchmarking, a method under which an individual is deemed more accomplished than another if and only if she has achieved more benchmarks, or important accomplishments. We show that benchmark rules are characterized by four axiom...