Among practitioners, it is often said that there is much that is useful that takes place during the evaluation process. The literature on the utilization of evaluation, however, mostly refers to lessons learned and recommendations implemented after the evaluation. This article seeks to contribute to the debate by exploring further the process use of evaluations – the evaluation use that takes p...

This paper presents a theoretical model which discusses the value of and need for the use of outcome rather than process evaluations of programs for the elderly. The theoretical framework is based on the highly successful philosophical model of statistical quality control used in industry, which assumes the best way to improve quality is to look at the outcomes. Most accreditation associations,...

This paper describes the development and use of recursively generated multithreaded process modules for process scheduling evaluation purposes. For this purpose specific executable modules were developed emulating in this way different computation-intensive workloads in Linux operating system and virtual environments such as User Mode Linux. An extensive number of iterative simulation tests hav...

In many scientific and engineering applications, we are tasked with the optimisation of an expensive to evaluate black box function f . Traditional methods for this problem assume just the availability of this single function. However, in many cases, cheap approximations to f may be obtainable. For example, the expensive real world behaviour of a robot can be approximated by a cheap computer si...

Related DatabasesWeb of Science You must be logged in with an active subscription to view this.Article DataHistorySubmitted: 20 April 2020Accepted: 03 February 2021Published online: 29 2021KeywordsMarkov decision process, partial observation, long-run average payoffAMS Subject Headings90C39, 90C40, 37A50, 60J20Publication DataISSN (print): 0363-0129ISSN (online): 1095-7138Publisher: Society for...