An important component of e-government maturity is online software tools for financial analysis directly on the website. This paper develops a novel extension of website heuristic evaluation methodology, contributing a set of guidelines which encompasses not only website content, but also online software quality, based on established software evaluation concerns. Interactive online retirement a...

Purpose In any organization there are main goals, with lots of projects designed to achieve these goals. It is important for any organization to determine how much these projects affect the achievement of these goals. The purpose of this study is to develop a Fuzzy Multiple Attribute-based Group Decision Support System (FMAGDSS) to evaluate projects’ performance in promoting the organization’s ...

Evaluation of Machine Translation (MT) technology is often tied to the requirement for tedious manual judgments of translation quality. While automated MT metrology continues to be an active area of research, a well known and often accepted standard metric is the manual human assessment of adequacy and fluency. There are several software packages (RWTH, 2000) (LDC, 2005) that have been used to ...

Assessments of configurations, dynamics, and cause and effect are at the heart of our thinking and explanation. Although numerous methods for such assessments have been developed and are being used in daily scientific practice, visualization is usually not considered to be one of them. In this article we first argue that this is due to the common practice of visualizing data rather than the inf...

CHROMA is a fully functional prototype content-based image retrieval system designed as part of the support mechanism for a digital photographic library. The paper outlines CHROMA's colour based indexing scheme and the access system which combines a Thumbnail Viewer, index structure Navigation Tool, a Sketch Tool and Query-by-Image-Example tool. Some recent results of evaluations of the effecti...

Finding creative solutions to ill-structured problems is integral to the work in many expert domains. A common flaw of software tools that support this kind of work is to support mainly the detailed specification of a selected solution. To extend this support to the other processes of ill-structured problem-solving, I propose ten design principles, synthesized from results in diverse fields of ...

Clinical observations suggest that nonverbal children with severe intellectual disability exhibit pain in a wide variety yet uniquely individual ways. Here, we investigate the feasibility and describe the initial psychometrics properties of the Individualized Numeric Rating Scale (INRS), a personalized pain assessment tool for nonverbal children with intellectual disability based on the parent'...

This paper addresses the problem of the performance evaluation of algorithms for the automatic detection of note onsets in music signals. Our experiments show that creating a database of reference files with reliable humanannotated onset times is a complex task, since its subjective part cannot be neglected. This work provides a methodology to construct such a database. With the use of a carefu...

Complex goal and task definition in geographic visualization Computer environments for visual data exploration are commonly developed to investigate plausible scenarios or questions that prompt the discovery of relations or patterns that are useful. The goal of simultaneously representing data (geospatial or otherwise) in a number of graphical forms is typically to support a process of hypothes...

English Language Learning (ELL) websites provide excellent opportunities for language learning. In order to interactive, fun learning experiences, many teachers opt use ELL and end up facing problems regarding the websites’ accessibility usability. Websites’ quality is a key factor users’ acceptance satisfaction. The proliferation of variety free unique website testing tools has made it possibl...