Erratum：Development and Performance Evaluation of Rail Fastening System Using Non-metallic Materials for Main Members [Quarterly Report of RTRI Vol.65, No.1, Page 49-54]

The study focused on the design and development of a student evaluation system for faculty performance in the University of Rizal System (URS). The system is composed of several features pertaining to privileges of different user groups, such as for the system admin, staff, and students. The developed system was evaluated by the respondents from the URS Binangonan campus, which mainly consists of students enrolled in different courses from first year to fourth year level. A survey questionnaire checklist was used to determine the level of acceptability of the design and development of the student evaluation system for faculty performance and administered via Google Form. The questionnaire checklist was based on the ISO25010, or software product quality criteria, in terms of functional suitability, performance efficiency, usability, reliability, security, maintainability, and portability. Based on the result of the evaluation, it was found that the developed system was generally acceptable as perceived by the respondents. Moreover, the researcher concluded that the design and development of the student evaluation system for faculty performance was functionally suitable, performs efficiently, usable, reliable, secured, maintainable, and portable. Furthermore, the researcher recommends that the developed Student Evaluation System may be implemented and used as a tool for the conduct of faculty evaluation; improvements or enhancements may be applied to the areas that were deemed acceptable; and finally, further study may be conducted to measure its effectiveness and impact.

The city of Portland’s Traffic System Performance Evaluation (TSPE) system is an innovative, practical, and cost-effective tool for monitoring traffic system performance in response to federal, state, and local legislation. It has been designed, implemented, and applied using readily available traffic data. The TSPE goes beyond traditional level-of-service analysis and gives the city a means to identify operational deficiencies and provide a baseline for future performance monitoring. The TSPE includes five performance indicators that were crafted in response to questions about traffic performance and in recognition of the costs and availability of data to support performance evaluation. Each of the five indicators addresses a specific element of traffic performance. District accessibility measures the ease of access to and egress from major activity centers by examining the delay at gateway intersections. The street origin-destination characteristics indicator assesses the percentage of nonlocal trips on streets with different functional classifications. Travel time is measured on a set of specific routes between activity centers. The traffic flow indicator assesses the variation in speeds on major roadways. The multimodal service levels indicator assesses multimodal operational performance based on service levels for four different transportation modes (vehicular, transit, bicycle, and pedestrian) along a corridor. The system has proved to be relatively easy and inexpensive to apply. Other jurisdictions developing performance evaluation systems should consider integrating some components of the TSPE system.

The review of literature on performance evaluation system are abundant but empirical study investing how performance evaluation system influencing lecturers’ work efficiency among applied university in China is under-researched. Applied university in China has unique educational goals and characteristics different from other higher institutions such as research-driven universities. This study aims to address literature gaps related to unanswered nuanced and influencing factors on performance evaluation system and lecturers’ work efficiency in applied university using the cases from Shaanxi province, China. Researcher employed qualitative method. Data were mainly collected through semi-structured interviews from 16 informants of applied and research universities from Shaanxi province who have knowledge on performance evaluation system with direct or indirect impact. The background of informants consists of President of applied universities, faculty members, senior administrators, undergraduates, parents and employers. Interview data was transcribed and analysis was complemented with other official documents. Qualitative research tools such as coding, memoing, constant comparisons, theoretical saturation and content analysis were used to analyze the interview data. Two cycles of coding led to 23 first-level focused codes, and subsequently reduced to nine second-level focused codes which leading to the discovery of three themes. The findings of this study can be reference for holistic understanding on performance evaluation, support interdisciplinary research particularly to the development of more effective, comprehensive, and context-specific performance evaluation systems that enhance the operational performance and societal impact of applied universities and other institutions.

Chapter 11 - Performances evaluation and Petri nets

This paper presents our work on modeling and performance analysis of inventory systems using batch deterministic and stochastic Petri nets (BDSPNs). It addresses issues frequently raised by industrial companies, but did not receive enough attention by the Petri nets (PNs) community in spite of its important role in the study of discrete event systems. The BDSPN is a new class of PNs capable of describing the synchronization of discrete and batch token flows in discrete batch processes. Such processes appear in inventory systems or more general supply chains where materials are purchased in finite discrete quantities (batches of different sizes), and many operations such as inventory replenishment and customer order fulfillment are usually performed in a batch way because of the batch nature of customer orders and/or in order to take advantages of the economies of scale. In this paper, the BDSPN model is formally introduced, and its conflict resolutions of transitions and batch firing indexes are addressed. The model is then applied to the modeling and performance evaluation of various inventory systems. Analytic performance evaluation techniques are developed for the model with illustrative applications to the inventory systems. Our study shows that the model is powerful for both modeling and performance evaluation of the systems.

The existing Petri Net researches of production system always define the trigger rates as some certain values. The problems can bring some risks or mistakes to analysis, evaluation and prediction of system performance, causing the managers hard to make the right, proper and efficient production plans and decisions. According to this, writers introduce Grey System theory into Petri Net, setting some uncertain trigger rates as interval grey numbers, firstly defining Grey Petri Net theory and designing its modeling, algorithm and analysis methods. At last, the writers establish a Grey Petri Net model to illustrate its algorithms and analysis methods, making some analysis and the evaluation of System Performances as machine utilization, productivity and system cycle time, get a good effect.

This study addresses the development of lecturers’ performance evaluation system specifically designed for applied universities. It analyzes the existing lecturer’s performance evaluation system in applied universities in Shaanxi Province and highlights several problems based on facts. The current lecturer performance evaluation system in applied universities is very similar to the system used in research universities, and it is found not suitable for the special requirements of applied universities. The indicators used in the performance evaluation system suffer from problems such as excessive quantification, imperfection, rigidity, and dogmas that lack scientific rigor in practical application. Through the literature, the study found that there are not many researches on applied universities. However, the existing research lacks the following three parts. First, there is a lack of performance evaluation policies for applied university lecturers. Second, the performance evaluation indicators are not in line with the talent training goal of applied university. Third, as a feature of application-oriented undergraduate social service research is also very few. Based on this, the main objective of this study is to develop a performance evaluation system for applied university lecturers, taking into account the educational objectives and characteristics of applied university. In this study, semi-structured interviews are used to collect data from research participants to understand the existing performance evaluation system of applied university lecturers from different perspectives and how they think it can be improved. Then form an applied university lecturer performance evaluation system.

New Advances in mobile computer technology, along with rapid growth of quality and quantity of wireless networks, introduce new capabilities, applications, and concerns to computer science and industry. Unique requirements and constraints of mobile systems bring new challenges to software development for such environments. It demands reconsidering the traditional approaches of information access, software design, and performance evaluation. Despite the various constraints and problems, research endeavors aimed at ameliorating the status quo through enhancing/devising software design and performance evaluation techniques for mobile software systems have been relatively few and far in between. In this paper, we aim to investigate the challenges of development and performance evaluation of mobile software systems. After reviewing mobile systems' characteristics, we investigate the current status of different approaches on improvement and evaluation of performance of mobile software systems. Then, the factors that make performance evaluation of mobile systems a challenging task are categorized. At last, we collect a set of performance metrics for evaluation of mobile systems, with the purpose of considering special characteristics of mobility.

The success of each organization depends undoubtedly on the quality of its management and management quality depends on decision quality and information quality on the quality of its measurement and proportion.Therefore, its accuracy and measurement has a key role in the success of the organization and the weakness of performance evaluation and managerial control system can transfer to a barrier for the growth of organization.Performance evaluation systems are now dividable to two traditional group (performance evaluation of an individual across reminding him about his performance) and modern group (developing and improving the capacity of evaluated individual and inclined to achievement of organizational objectives and strategies).One of the most authoritative strategic models in this field is the balanced scorecard (BSC) model in which entire aspects of an organization are dominantly investigated.However, no operational trend has been introduced for utilizing it up to now.In this paper, an operational trend is introduced to apply the foundations of BSC model and multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques.The most important goal of researchers in representation of new structure for creating development and growth capacity and permanent improvement is associated by a kind of providence, such that it can develop desirable organizational and work behaviors towards achieving the objectives and strategies of the organization.In addition, the strategic planning of Islamic Azad university of Semnan was modeled by suggested structure to validate the suggested structure's capacities.The results showed that outputs were more tangible for the personnel of the organization and the results were accepted by the managers of Islamic Azad university of Semnan.

Thermodynamic analysis of open-air Brayton cycle to predict radial turbine aerodynamic performance

Computer Systems Performance Evaluation and Prediction

The design of computer systems has historically been focused on determining the needs of users and packaging the needs into applications. It is generally assumed that the computer system configuration and system software will deliver acceptable performance levels. Issues related to system performance and capacity have received insufficient attention even though its importance has been recognised. Expert system technology offers potential to support performance evaluation and capacity planning of computer systems. The author describes development efforts in the design, development, and use of a cost-effective PC-based expert system, CPEES, for performance evaluation of Unix-based computer systems. A discussion is given on the external conceptual architecture and internal structure of the proposed expert system, its prototype implementation on a Unix multiprocessor computer system, and the operation of CPEES and steps involved in the flow of consultation. >

Modeling and performance evaluation of current production systems gains more and more importance because of growing system complexity and production costs. Therefore tools and methods are needed that allow a simple modeling and performance evaluation of systems. The goal of this paper is to give a short introduction into the specification of production systems using the model description language MOSEL (MOdeling Specification and Evaluation Language) [BoHe95] and the analysis tool MOSES (MOdeling Specification and Evaluation System) [BGJZ94, BGR95] which uses MOSEL as input. Therefore the characteristics of the components of production systems (like batch processing or unreliable machines) are introduced. For each of these characteristics a MOSEL specification is given and explained. On the example of a wafer production system [Rand86] it is shown that using our specification language also realistic production systems can be specified and analyzed.

Electrical conductivity effect on the performance evaluation of EIT systems: A review

Performance evaluation of passive heat barrier system in Latvian climatic conditions