Proposed Evaluation Model Research Articles

Applying Rough Set Theory to Evaluate Network Marketing Performance of China’s Agricultural Products

Agricultural products network marketing means fully introducing e-commerce systems into the sale process of agricultural products, using information technologies to publish and collect the demand and price information, and relying on agricultural production bases and logistics distribution systems to enhance brand images, improve customer services, develop online marketing channels and ultimately expand marketing activities . I t is very important to evaluate the performance of agricultural products network marketing. The paper proposed a performance evaluation model of agricultural products network marketing based on rough set theory. The model used genetic algorithm to reduce the initial decision table and, through calculating the importance of the decision attributes in the reduced decision table, identified the weight coefficients of various influencing indexes, effectively overcoming the subjectivity of weight coefficient determination in the current evaluation models. In the same time, the paper evaluated the network marketing performance of six agricultural enterprises and the results were in line with the actual results, which verified the validity of the proposed evaluation model. Lastly, the paper, according to the reduced results of the initial index system, proposed specific measures and suggestions to improve the network marketing performance of agricultural products.

Long-Term Integrity of Waste Package Final Closure for HLW Geological Disposal, (VI) Consistency of the Structural Integrity Evaluation Model for the Weld Joint

Overpack, a container of high-level radioactive waste for Japan's geological disposal program, is required to prevent the sealed vitrified waste from coming into contact with groundwater for 1,000 years. This means that the same duration and function arerequired for the weld joint between the body and lid of the overpack. The authors have initiated studies on a methodology evaluating the long-term integrity of the lid closure, including welding tests and non-destructive examination tests, and proposed a structural integrity evaluation model for the lid closure as a basis for fracture mechanics assessment. The model makes two main assumptions consistent with six prerequisites. Thisarticle examines the consistency of the mechanical strength of the lid closure (one of the two assumptions) with its prerequisites, through a review of the test results of corrosion behavior and numerical calculations of neutron irradiation embrittlement for weld joints. Furthermore, a comparison of the critical crack lengths at different penetration depths was conducted, and an estimation of the maximum tolerable flaw size, which serves as a form of an acceptance criterion after adding a safety factor for the size of the weld flaw, was made. Based on these results, the consistency of the proposed evaluation model was discussed and identified.

An Open Source Software Evaluation Model

The allure of free, industrial-strength software has many enterprises rethinking their open source strategies. However, selecting an appropriate open source software for a given problem or set of requirements is very challenging. The challenges include a lack of generally accepted evaluation criteria and a multitude of eligible open source software projects. The contribution of this work is a set of criteria and a methodology for assessing candidate open source software for fitness of purpose. To test this evaluation model, several important open source projects were examined. The results of this model were compared against the published results of an evaluation performed by the Defense Research and Development Canada agency. The proposed evaluation model relies on publicly accessible data, is easy to perform, and can be incorporated into any open source strategy.

Evaluating optimal choice of the energy fund by using AHP-TOPSIS model

With raw materials increases, various types of energy funds, such as natural resources and public utilities in Taiwan fund management industry, or even financial circles, has clearly become a hot fund product. However, raw material price fluctuations of Taiwan, but the risks of high, if investors do not have the energy to any concept will be exposed in a highrisk investment environment. But only for the assessment of compensation for performance analysis, there is no in-depth study of the impact of fund performance major causes. Thus, this study general consensus among experts can be reached to establish a hierarchical structure. The proposed model incorporates the AHP to determine the evaluation weights, and TOPSIS selects the optimal energy fund to determine the effectiveness of the proposed evaluation model. Investment targets obtained based on assessment is also resented for the reference of investors and academic institutions.

퍼지 ID3를 이용한 재난관리시스템 평가모델의 패턴분석

본 논문에서는 국제적으로 통용되고 있는 지속가능경영 가이드라인 GRI G3버전과 BCP 프로세스를 중심으로 하여 중소기업의 지속가능경영을 위한 재난관리시스템의 평가모델을 제안하였다. 제안한 평가모델은 중소기업의 재난관리시스템의 평가에 직접적으로 사용가능하며, 재난관리시스템을 구축하고자 할 때의 지표로서의 사용도 가능하다. 또한 제안한 평가모델에 대한 퍼지 ID3를 이용한 패턴분석을 통하여 얻어지는 룰은 중소기업의 자체 평가시의 가이드라인으로서 효과적으로 사용될 수 있으리라 기대된다. In this paper, an evaluation model of disaster management system which is developed by using GRI G3 version and BCP process for the sustainability management of small and middle enterprises was proposed. The proposed evaluation model can be used to evaluate the disaster management system directly, and to establish the disaster management system as an index. Also, the rules obtained by pattern analysis using fuzzy ID3 for the proposed evaluation model are expected to use the guideline effectively for self evaluation in the small and middle enterprises.

유한요소해석에 기초한 감육곡관 손상압력 평가 모델 개발

This paper provides a failure pressure evaluation model for local wall-thinned elbows. In this study, parametric finite element analyses are performed on the elbows containing local wall-thinning defect at their intrados and extrados, and the failure pressures are obtained from the analysis results by applying a local failure criterion that was validated by real-scale pipe tests. An evaluation model including the effects of thinning depth, length, circumferential angle, thinning location, and elbow geometries on the failure pressure is derived based on the evaluated failure pressures. The proposed model agrees well with the results of finite element analyses and reasonably estimates the dependence of failure pressure on the wall-thinning dimensions and elbow geometries. Also, the comparison with experimental data demonstrates that the proposed evaluation model can accurately predict the failure pressure of local wall-thinned elbows.

通用型、分類及次分類供應商評選模式之比較－以台灣電源供應器製造商爲研究對象

Power supplies are made up of many components that are supplied by many suppliers. Thus, the success of a power supply manufacturer replies very much on the collaboration and cooperation of its suppliers. As a result, one important issue that arises is how to select good suppliers that a power supply manufacturer can depend on. In practice, many power supply manufacturers have their own evaluation models or methods for this purpose. However, their supplier-evaluation models or methods may not work very well for various reasons, e.g. relying too much on human experts. Furthermore, many power supply manufacturers often apply one evaluation model or method for all categories of suppliers. In other words, the possible benefits of applying different evaluation models or methods to different categories of suppliers have never been investigated. In this paper, we propose a supplier evaluation model that combines the structure and dimensions of Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and the concept of Kanji Business Scorecard (KBS) and we adopt the AHP method to help us build up the evaluation model. We then test the model’s validity and performance on Taiwanese power supply manufacturers. The test result shows that the proposed evaluation model can evaluate suppliers very correctly. We also find that better evaluation results can be obtained if one categorizes the suppliers into smaller categories, then applies evaluation models specifically for these categories. And, the smaller the categories, the better the evaluation results of the evaluation models.

Developing a Model to Measure Financial Condition in Local Government

Various studies have sought to obtain a measure of the financial health of local authorities, via the concept of financial condition. However, in measuring this latter concept, two serious problems need to be addressed: The first concerns the inclusion or otherwise of socioeconomic variables in the proposed evaluation models, and the second, the difficulty of measuring the solvency in the level of services provided. Therefore, the authors have created a methodology to measure the financial condition of a local authority, including a variable to measure the quality of the services received by the population, and present a new treatment for the variables of the socioeconomic environment so that the financial and socioeconomic factors can be integrated. The application of this method to a sample of Spanish local authorities reveals its capability of minimizing the effects of the socioeconomic environment and maximizing the value of benchmarking, making comparisons between local authorities simpler and more effective.

An evaluation model for character quality on scanned image

Scanners, standalone or embedded in MFP, have been widely utilized for document scanning/copying in office environments. There are many factors affecting the quality of scanned image. They include quality of characters, size of gamut, degree of noises, color reproduction, tone characteristics, and gray balance, etc. This paper is focused on quantitative evaluation of character quality on scanned images. Objective of this paper is to derive a quantitative evaluation model that faithfully matches with the human perception. Key attributes determining character quality are extracted first based on subjective human visual experiments. For each of the identified attributes, a quantitative metric is developed. The proposed evaluation model is designed as a linear combination of the quantified metrics. Coefficients for linear combination are estimated by applying linear regression. Various experiments are performed to verify the performance of the proposed evaluation model.

A Model for Evaluating Interface Terminologies

ObjectiveEvaluations of individual terminology systems should be driven in part by the intended usages of such systems. Clinical interface terminologies support interactions between healthcare providers and computer-based applications. They aid practitioners in converting clinical “free text” thoughts into the structured, formal data representations used internally by application programs. Interface terminologies also serve the important role of presenting existing stored, encoded data to end users in human-understandable and actionable formats. The authors present a model for evaluating functional utility of interface terminologies based on these intended uses. DesignSpecific parameters defined in the manuscript comprise the metrics for the evaluation model. MeasurementsParameters include concept accuracy, term expressivity, degree of semantic consistency for term construction and selection, adequacy of assertional knowledge supporting concepts, degree of complexity of pre-coordinated concepts, and the “human readability” of the terminology. The fundamental metric is how well the interface terminology performs in supporting correct, complete, and efficient data encoding or review by humans. ResultsAuthors provide examples demonstrating performance of the proposed evaluation model in selected instances. ConclusionA formal evaluation model will permit investigators to evaluate interface terminologies using a consistent and principled approach. Terminology developers and evaluators can apply the proposed model to identify areas for improving interface terminologies.

Evaluating competitive advantage of the location for Taiwanese hospitals

This study identifies important optimal location attributes and factors influencing the evaluation model to select the optimal location. Increased living standards in Taiwan in recent years have made Taiwanese residents more health conscious and increasingly concerned with quality healthcare, explaining the heightened consumer demand for quality and scope of medical services. In such an intensely competitive environment, selecting the optimal location of hospitals to be established is of priority concern. Adopted herein is the renowned diamond model introduced in Porter's The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990) that influences how competitive advantages, especially with respect to developing and evaluating the objectives of optimal location selection, are related in order to devise a standardized operational procedure. Therefore, this work presents an AHP-based evaluation model for fuzzy prioritization; the proposed model incorporates the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) to determine the evaluation weights. Finally, then performed to select the optimal location of a regional hospital in Taiwan to determine the effectiveness of the proposed evaluation model. The proposed evaluation criterion provides a valuable reference for hospital administrators and academics in establishing a standardized means of selecting the optimal location for new medical care facilities.

The impact of sample imbalance on identifying differentially expressed genes

BackgroundRecently several statistical methods have been proposed to identify genes with differential expression between two conditions. However, very few studies consider the problem of sample imbalance and there is no study to investigate the impact of sample imbalance on identifying differential expression genes. In addition, it is not clear which method is more suitable for the unbalanced data.ResultsBased on random sampling, two evaluation models are proposed to investigate the impact of sample imbalance on identifying differential expression genes. Using the proposed evaluation models, the performances of six famous methods are compared on the unbalanced data. The experimental results indicate that the sample imbalance has a great influence on selecting differential expression genes. Furthermore, different methods have very different performances on the unbalanced data. Among the six methods, the welch t-test appears to perform best when the size of samples in the large variance group is larger than that in the small one, while the Regularized t-test and SAM outperform others on the unbalanced data in other cases.ConclusionTwo proposed evaluation models are effective and sample imbalance should be taken into account in microarray experiment design and gene expression data analysis. The results and two proposed evaluation models can provide some help in selecting suitable method to process the unbalanced data.

シャルピー衝撃試験と破壊力学靭性試験の延性・脆性破壊遷移温度相関に及ぼす鋼材特性の影響の評価モデルの提案

There have been many correlations between Charpy test results and fracture toughness test results such as CTOD test results.However, these correlations are not based on the theoretical model but quite empirical. Therefore, the current empirical correlations between both test results, that is especially the brittle-to-ductile transition temperatures, would not be necessarily applicable to the structural steels with various properties. In this study, an analytical evaluation model to correlate Charpy transition temperature with CTOD transition temperature is proposed only after applying the following new ideas with aiming at the effect of steel properties on the transition temperature difference. One is the definition of fracture transition temperature where brittle fracture coincides with ductile crack initiation in both Charpy and CTOD testing. Another one is employing "local plastic strain criterion" for ductile cracking and "Weibull stress criterion" for brittle fracture initiation. This proposed evaluation model provides fracture transition temperature difference ΔTi (= Ti Charpy - Ti CTOD) between Charpy transition temperature Ti Charpy and CTOD transition temperature Ti Charpy, and on effect of steel properties quantitatively. It is analyzed that strength level and work hardening as well as toughness and ductility level of steels can influence transition temperature difference ΔTi. A higher strength and a higher ductility of steels decreases ΔTi, on the contrary, a higher work hardening and a higher toughness increases ΔTi. The effects of these mechanical properties on ΔTi can be interpreted by strain rate and temperature effects on flow stress of steels.

A systems approach to program evaluation model for quality in higher education

PurposeTo propose an evaluation model for the quality implementations in higher education through an analysis of quality systems and program evaluation using a systems approach.Design/methodology/approachTheoretical background, research and practice of the quality systems in higher education and program evaluation are analysed in conjunction with the concepts of systems approach. The analysis leads to a systems approach‐based program‐evaluation model for quality implementation in higher education.FindingsThe three concepts, quality systems in higher education, program evaluation and systems approach, are found to be consistent and compatible with one another with regard to the goals and organizational structure of the higher education institutions. The proposed evaluation model provides a new perspective for higher education management for the effective and efficient implementation of the quality systems and program improvement.Research limitations/implicationsThe implementation of the model in a real university setting is necessary for the clarification of the processes.Practical implicationsThe study provides a constructive analysis of higher‐education‐related concepts, and a new dimension of quality systems and program evaluation is developed in the model. The approach comprises three subsystems; “social system”, “technical systems”, and “managerial system”. The evaluation of quality in higher education requires inquiry of the components of the systems.Originality/valueThis paper proposes an innovative evaluation model integrating the systems approach into quality tools. The model is claimed to be the first in integrating the three approaches.

Evaluation parameters for computer‐adaptive testing

AbstractWith the proliferation of computers in test delivery today, adaptive testing has become quite popular, especially when examinees must be classified into two categories (pass/fail, master/nonmaster). Several well‐established organisations have provided standards and guidelines for the design and evaluation of educational and psychological testing. The purpose of this paper was not to repeat the guidelines and standards that exist in the literature but to identify and discuss the main evaluation parameters for a computer‐adaptive test (CAT). A number of parameters should be taken into account when evaluating CAT. Key parameters include utility, validity, reliability, satisfaction, usability, reporting, administration, security, and thoseassociated with adaptivity, item pool, and psychometric theory. These parameters are presented and discussed below and form a proposed evaluation model, Evaluation Model of Computer‐Adaptive Testing.

A fuzzy index model for trophic status evaluation of reservoir waters

An index model for quality evaluation based on the formula of similarity membership functions in the fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering algorithm is proposed. Summing up the weighted similarity degrees between an observation and designed specific quality-ordered levels develops an alternative overall index. Stretching the values of the controlling parameters in the formula of the similarity membership functions causes diverse patterns of overall index models. Applying this proposed fuzzy index model to the trophic evaluation of reservoir waters is studied to demonstrate the practical application of this index. Every measurement of the variables is standardized by the membership function of quality evaluation on the interval [0,1], referring to the trophic status clarified in the Carlson Trophic State Index. The sensitivity analyses are studied both in the proposed index system and the Carlson Trophic State Index. Besides, a case study of the trophic status evaluation of the Feitsui Reservoir from 1987 to 2003 is presented to demonstrate the feasibility of applying the proposed evaluation model.

New developments for the design and construction of tunnels in complex rock masses

Tunnel collapse hazard is a key issue in tunnel construction, which should be adequately assessed to prevent economic damage and casualty. The present study proposed a risk evaluation model for tunnel collapse based on a quantified grading system and influence factors that significantly affected the tunnel collapse hazard. For this purpose, 24 actual tunnel collapse cases were collected, and a database was established to select significant influence factors as the risk evaluation indices. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique and Delphi survey analysis were then adopted to quantify the influence factors and the grading system for the risk evaluation of tunnel collapse. The significant influence factors were selected using the grading guide based on the weight importance and rating score of each considered influence factor. As an evaluation criterion, the TR index based on the probability distribution of weighted influence factors was proposed to compare the risk of collapse using Monte-Carlo simulation. The proposed evaluation model and TR index were validated by comparing and analyzing the risk index calculated using the proposed grading system for actual tunnel cases with and without collapse. The evaluated risk indices were in good agreement with the measured result from field cases.

KEY QUALITY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION USING FUZZY AHP

ABSTRACT This research proposes an evaluation model that integrates triangular fuzzy numbers and the analytical hierarchy process to develop a fuzzy multiple-attribute decision-making (FMADM) model for key quality-performance evaluation. Using the proposed model, decision-makers can determine, in advance, critical quality elements that might significantly affect quality performance. A practical example of an electronic product has been used to illustrate the theoretical qualitative proposed evaluation model. Results demonstrate that decision-makers can use the flexibility of the proposed model by adjusting the confidence coefficient to express their degree of understanding with respect to the importance of each component. Moreover, the result of FMADM analysis is a significant contribution to quality improvement.

Journal quality assessment: an integrated subjective and objective approach

Many universities, research institutions, and government funding agencies are continuously attempting to grade or rank journals for their academic value. Such grading is needed both for funding and resource allocation purposes and for personnel decisions. In grading journals, objective information, such as the impact factors (the most commonly used journal citation information provided by Journal Citation Reports) and/or subjective information, such as experts' judgments about the journals, are used. Grading of journals is typically done by a committee. Most of the existing approaches only consider either the subjective or the objective information. While such approaches work in many cases, they may not work in many others. Complaints about politics, inconsistencies and unfairness are common in many situations. This paper presents a methodology that integrates both types of information, providing a comprehensive method for assessing the quality of journals. The method employs a fuzzy set approach that also deals with the imprecise and missing information frequently inherited in the evaluation process. The proposed evaluation model is implemented in a Web-based system. A pilot evaluation study indicated that participants clearly preferred the system and its major features.

A proposed model for superintendent evaluation

A proposed model for superintendent evaluation