Keyword: measurement

Found 937 papers in total
The nearest adjoining order method for pairwise comparisons in the form of difference of ranks
2000,
The problem of ranking of elements from some finite set on the basis of nearest...
Global measures of information service quality: A cross-national study
1995,
Maintaining consistently high quality information services (IS) is a powerful means of...
A comparative analysis of quality practice in manufacturing firms in the US and Taiwan
1995,
The aim of this paper is to determine if there is a causal relationship between...
The use of data envelopment analysis in the regulation of UK water utilities: Water distribution
2000,
Regulation is increasingly playing a major role in defence of the public interest in...
Markovian software availability measurement based on the number of restoration actions
2000,
In this paper, we construct a software availability model considering the number of...
The value of runway time slots for airlines
2000,
In flight scheduling, airlines usually determine optimal timing for their flights to...
On strategy and management control: The importance of classifying the strategy of the business
2000,
The point of departure for this paper is a number of contingency-theory studies on the...
Measuring the efficiency of English secondary schools: An efficiency position approach by means of DEA
2000,
This paper outlines a DEA based approach to decompose overall measures of efficiency...
Arbitrage-free valuation of a federal timber lease
1999,
The objective of this paper is to describe a quantitative framework for offering...
Valuing a forest as a call option: The sale of Forestry Corporation of New Zealand
2000,
In September 1996, the New Zealand (NZ) Government sold its 100% shareholding...
The privatisation of Australia's airports
2000,
When the Federal Airports Corporation (FAC) was formed in 1988, administration of...
Whither the almshouse? Overutilization and the role of the emergency department
1998,
The problem of emergency department (ED) overutilization or...
Distanced perspectives: AIDS, anencephaly, and the analytic hierarchy process
1998,
US court decisions guaranteeing life-sustaining care to anencephalic infants have been...
Estimating managerial efficiency: The case of college basketball coaches
1996,
Data envelopment analysis, a linear programming technique, is used to estimate an...
An analysis of the operations efficiency of major airports in the United States
2000,
Recently, considerable attention has been focused on the performance of various...
Estimating demand for a cycle-way network
2000,
We study the use of bicycles as an alternative mode of transport in Santiago. We...
A probabilistic approach to evaluate strategies for selecting a parking space
1998,
Upon entering the parking lot of a facility, a driver must select a parking space....
Human judgement and analytical derivation of ride quality
1999,
Questions concerning when a road ceases to serve the public well or has failed are...
On the decomposition of value functions
1998,
This paper provides a mathematical framework for the decomposition of value functions...
Assessment of chargeback systems in IT management
2000,
The management practice of billing cost centers or user departments for services...
Measuring the effectiveness of reliability growth testing
1999,
Assessing the effectiveness of reliability growth testing allow decisions to be made...
Stratified filtered sampling in stochastic optimization
2000,
We develop a methodology for evaluating a decision strategy generated by a stochastic...
Industry performance and structural efficiency measures: Solutions to problems in firm models
2000,
It is shown that average-unit structural efficiency measures do not measure the level...
Critically evaluating an applications vs theory framework for research quality
1999,
Ormerod contributes to an ongoing debate by pointing out that not only do US authors...
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