Keyword: measurement

Found 937 papers in total
Ranking journals in business and management: a statistical analysis of the Harzing data set
2007,
Creating rankings of academic journals is an important but contentious issue. It is of...
Latent variable scores: An option for customer satisfaction index of Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency
2006,
Structural Equation Models with unobservable variables and measurement error have been...
Fuzzy logic model for cotton grading
2007,
This paper describes the applications of Fuzzy Logic to cotton grading. In order to...
The future of revenue management and pricing science
2007,
There are five major areas where the future of revenue management and pricing science...
Development of a patient safety culture measurement tool for ambulatory health care settings: analysis of content validity
2007,
The development of patient safety culture in health care organizations is a necessary...
Evaluating multiple performance measures across several dimensions at a multi-facility outpatient center
2007,
Over the past several decades healthcare delivery systems have received increased...
Modelling aesthetic variables in the valuation of paintings: an interval goal programming approach
2007,
The economic valuation of works of art is a decisive subject in the general field of...
Locality of reference and the use of sojourn time variance for measuring queue unfairness
2007,
Sojourn time variance is widely used as an indication of queue unfairness. We...
Measuring the performances of decision-making units using geometric average efficiency
2007,
The performances of decision-making units (DMUs) can be measured from two different...
Performance evaluation using data envelopment analysis in the presence of time lags
2007,
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a methodology that computes efficiency values for...
Ranking contingent monitoring systems
2007,
This paper seeks to provide a ranking of information systems in a setting of...
An approximate analytical method for evaluating the performance of closed-loop flow systems with unreliable machines and finite buffers
2007,
We present an efficient and accurate approximate analytical decomposition method for...
Evaluating the efficiency of a two-stage production process using data envelopment analysis
2007,
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been widely used to evaluate the comparative...
Resolving inconsistencies in utility measurement under risk: Tests of generalizations of expected utility
2007,
This paper explores inconsistencies that occur in utility measurement under risk when...
Performance measurement of supply chain management: a balanced scorecard approach
2007,
This paper develops a balanced scorecard for supply chain management (SCM) that...
Fairness and channel coordination
2007,
We incorporate the concept of fairness in a conventional dyadic channel to investigate...
The Quit Benefits Model: a Markov model for assessing the health benefits and health care cost savings of quitting smoking
2007,
In response to the lack of comprehensive information about the health and economic...
The city and the police force: analysing relative efficiency in city police precincts with data envelopment analysis
2007,
This paper analyses the efficiency of the Lisbon police force precincts with a 2-stage...
Performance analysis of call centers based on M/M/S/K+M queue in changeable service rate with server breakdowns
2006,
In order to analyze performance qualities of a call center quantitatively, as such...
Equity models in planar location
2007,
In this paper we investigate planar location models with equity objectives. Two...
Performance measurement in military provisions: the case of retail stores of Taiwan's General Welfare Service Ministry
2007,
This paper aims to explore the operating efficiency and the benchmark-learning road...
A study on the cost of operational complexity in customer–supplier systems
2007,
This paper reports on the application of the operational complexity index. The aim is...
A holistic framework for short-term supply chain management integrating production and corporate financial planning
2007,
Traditional approaches for SCM usually focus on process operations and neglect the...
Measuring and mitigating the costs of stockouts
2006,
There is now an extensive theoretical literature investigating optimal inventory...
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