Lawyers make short work of “clinical experience” testimony by defendants and expert witnesses in suicide malpractice cases. Clinical experience, unaided by evidence-based research, can be idiosyncratic, insufficient, uninformed, or just plain wrong when applied to complex, fact-specific suicide cases. Both in the clinical setting and in providing expert witness testimony, clinical experience ca...

Sustainable development, as a concept of controlled development, is a management characteristic. Adaptation to progress is important to achieve sustainability. The research focus here is on developing an evaluation methodology for determining the characteristics of urban open space. A method was designed for use in the comparative analysis of environmental perception evaluation between differen...

Accident and incident investigators play a central role within safety management systems. Their recommendations help to ensure that hazards do not recur. Their reports describe previous hazards that help to inform subsequent risk assessments. Their findings can act as a catalyst for change not only within individual organisations but across entire industries. There is little agreement about the...

In the past, many researchers have analysed queueing models with batch service. In such models, the server typically postpones service until the number of present customers reaches a service threshold, whereupon service is initiated of a batch consisting of several customers. In addition, correlation in the customer arrival process has been studied for many different queueing models. However, c...

Software architecture evaluation methods aim at identifying potential maintainability problems for a given architecture. Several of these methods exist, which typically prescribe the structure of the evaluation process. Often left implicit, however, are the concrete system attributes that need to be studied in order to assess the maintainability of implemented architectures. To determine this s...

An important problem in discrete-event stochastic simulation is the selection of the best system from a finite set of alternatives. There are many techniques for ranking and selection and multiple comparisons discussed in the literature. Most procedures employ classical frequentist approaches, although there has been recent attention to Bayesian methods. In this paper, we compare Bayesian and f...

Management performance evaluation means assessment of scalability, complexity, accuracy, throughput, delays and resources consumptions. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of management frameworks delays through a set of specific metrics. We investigate the statistical properties of these metrics when the number of management nodes increases. We show that management delays measured at the...