Spatial pooling strategies used in recent Image Quality Assessment (IQA) algorithms have generally been that of simply averaging the values of the obtained scores across the image. Given that certain regions in an image are perceptually more important than others, it is not unreasonable to suspect that gains can be achieved by using an appropriate pooling strategy. In this paper, we explore two...

abstract growth quality index (qgi) is affected by two sets of structural and social composite indicators. structural indicator contributes to achieve the main target of sound, sustainable, and competitive output growth. by the way, the sound output growth should enhance social public services and living standard. although qgis are computed based on different scenarios, the trend of the qgis an...

The quality of the data in spreadsheets is less discussed than the structural integrity of the formulas. Yet it is an area of great interest to the owners and users of the spreadsheet. This paper provides an overview of Information Quality (IQ) and Data Quality (DQ) with specific reference to how data is sourced, structured, and presented in spreadsheets.

0963-8687/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V doi:10.1016/j.jsis.2010.05.001 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +971 6 5152306. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (N. Gorla), ton Increased organizational dependence on information systems drivesmanagement attention towards improving information systems’ quality. A recent survey shows that ‘‘Improve IT quality” is one of the top concerns facing IT exec...

nowadays, with increasing service industries, service marketing and service quality have become an important challenge to organizations. the attempts of organizations in this situation are witnesses to this matter. in the past years, the organizations tried to reach service quality appropriation and satisfaction of self-external customers by concepts and approaches of external marketing. one of...

This paper examines factors influencing adoption of electronic government services among end-users of Electronic Labor Exchange (ELX) in Malaysia. The objective of the paper is to understand how end-users perceived e-Government as a primary government interaction channel and the factors that affect their level of usage. The proposed adoption model integrates a number of measurement criteria suc...

Class cohesion refers to the degree of relatedness of class attributes and methods. Software developers use class cohesion measure to assess the quality of their products and to guide the restructuring of poorly designed classes. Several class cohesion metrics are proposed in the literature, and a few of them are theoretically validated against the class cohesion necessary properties. Metrics t...