in the recent years, the relationship between diversification and performance became an important empirical subject in financial management. diversification strategies can affect the competitive balance of an industry. in this survey we are to illustrate the relationship between the two variables of diversification and financial ratios as performance criteria based on accounting through statist...

Functional principal component analysis (FPCA) has become the most widely used dimension reduction tool for functional data analysis. We consider functional data measured at random, subject-specific time points, contaminated with measurement error, allowing for both sparse and dense functional data, and propose novel information criteria to select the number of principal component in such data....

Many algorithms for scheduling DAGs on multiprocessors have been proposed, but there has been little work done to determine their eeectiveness. Since multi-processor scheduling is an NP-hard problem, no exact tractible algorithm exists, and no baseline is available from which to compare the resulting schedules. Furthermore, performance guarantees have been found for only a few simple DAGs. This...

Data ow and mutation testing are two powerful white box testing techniques for unit-level software testing. Unfortunately, they cannot be completely compared on an analytical basis, for example, mutation is incomparable on an inclusion basis with most data ow criteria. This paper shows that mutation includes the All-defs data ow criterion, but is incomparable with other data ow criteria, and pr...

†‡ The present paper outlines a method for probabilistic multi-criteria decision making. Recognizing the limitations of traditional probabilistic methods in accounting for multiple decision criteria in conceptual or preliminary design, this new method combines probabilistic treatment of uncertain information with a multi-criteria decision making technique. The paper describes how the method add...

evaporation, as a major component of the hydrologic cycle, plays a key role in water resources development and management in arid and semi-arid climatic regions. although there are empirical formulas available, their performances are not all satisfactory due to the complicated nature of the evaporation process and the data availability. this paper explores evaporation estimation methods based o...

This article is a continuation of research aimed at formation of a system of criteria for the expert evaluation of the basketball players' actual quality. So far, the external standards for assessing players' performance have been defined and described and the relative importance coefficients of each criterion for the performance evaluation per positions in the game have been established as wel...

This research report provides preliminary results in terms of ERP system selection criteria across five European Union countries based on empirical studies. The paper provides a structured list of decision making criteria considered in ERP decisions and contrasts weights as well as achievement levels across countries. Research was guided by the Delone & McLean Information Systems (D&M IS) succe...