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RE-EM Trees: A New Data Mining Approach for Longitudinal Data

Longitudinal data refer to the situation where repeated observations are available for each sampled individual. Methodologies that take this structure into account allow for systematic differences between individuals that are not related to covariates. A standard methodology in the statistics literature for this type of data is the random effects...

Tags: Methodology, New York University, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-05-29

Management Excellence: The Metrics Reloaded

The key to enterprise performance management is to identify an organization's value drivers, focus on them, and align the organization to drive results. It's as simple as that; and it is the hardest thing to do. The fact that there are many management methodologies, such as the balanced scorecard, performance...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Methodology, Metrics Inc., Balanced Scorecard, Business Intelligence, Marketing, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-09-01

Get a handle on service-oriented design methodology

The discipline of service-oriented modeling and design provides guidelines for effectively designing an SOA using services, service components, and process flows. This chapter from Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service-Oriented Architect offers a detailed overview of a service-oriented design methodology. It uses the IBM-developed SOMA analysis and design...

Tags: Methodology, SOA, Modeling, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Research & Development, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations

Book chapters 2008-08-07

Using the UML Profile for MARTE to MPSoC Co-Design

The increasing amount of hardware resources in next generation MultiProcessor Systems-on-Chip MPSoC calls for efficient design methodologies and tools to reduce their development complexity. This paper presents a candidate MPSoC design environment Gaspard2, which uses the MARTE (Modeling and Analysis of Real-Time and Embedded systems) standard profile for high-level system...

Tags: Methodology, Hardware, Gaspard2, UML, Research & Development, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Business Operations

White papers 2008-04-23

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Evaluation Methodology for the 21st Century

The paper explores the consequences of their collective inattention to methodology on innovation, makes recommendations for addressing this problem in one domain, and provides guidelines for other domains. The paper describes benchmark suite design, experimental design, and analysis for evaluating Java applications. For example, the paper introduces new criteria for...

Tags: Methodology, Association For Computing Machinery, Leadership, Programming Languages, Strategy, Java, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-04-23

Energy-Efficient Performance on the Client: A Proposed Measurement Methodology

It is clear that the industry needs to implement energy-efficient performance measurement tools that provide meaningful results to end users. Although there are industry organizations that have started to look at this, in the interim Intel is proposing a methodology for comparing Intel platforms. This methodology isn't intended to be...

Tags: Intel Corp., Management, Methodology, Strategy

White papers 2007-09-01

Accurate and Efficient SLA Compliance Monitoring

Service Level Agreements SLAs define performance guarantees made by service providers, e.g, in terms of packet loss, delay, delay variation, and network availability. This paper describes a new active measurement methodology to accurately monitor whether measured network path characteristics are in compliance with performance targets specified in SLAs. Specifically, the...

Tags: SLA, Performance, Methodology, Service Level Management, Performance Management, It Operations, It service Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-08-31

Methodology for Railway Demand Forecasting Using Data Mining

After the organization to resolve its operational problems, comes the necessity for systems to support decision making. The research area data mining grows quickly to take care of these new necessities. However, the use of data mining techniques becomes difficult due to the lack of a complete and systematic methodology...

Tags: Knowledge, Methodology, Forecasting, Research Area Data Mining, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management

White papers 2007-05-14

Teaching Classes' Relations: A Walkthrough Using UML Arrow Methodology

Object oriented design involves, among other, selecting entities and relationships between them. The past practical experience shows that often, students select inappropriate relations between classes regardless of their formal education. This paper presents a UML arrow methodology for supporting classes' relationship selection using UML notation. The methodology is comprised of...

Tags: Methodology, University Of Haifa, UML, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2007-05-13

Application Architecture Essentials, Part 3: Getting Started With Application Development Methodologies

In this installment in the series about the discipline of application architecture, one explores the skills, tools, techniques, and milestones related to application development methodology. A well-rounded application architect must be able to apply a number of methodologies to the development of an application. The choice of method may be...

Tags: Application Development, Methodology, Software Development, Development Tools, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-04-03

Using a Phased Methodology in Business Process Management: Stay on Target With a Logical Approach to Process Management

Using a phased methodology in process management can drive a balanced view of the future for companies redesigning internal processes. Learn about the steps involved in typical process management phases and how to establish a phased methodology in the organization. Phases are process segments that logically follow one another. Methodology...

Tags: Business Process, Process Management, BPM, Methodology, Analysis, Phases, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-01-16

Developing a Methodology for Road Network Vulnerability Analysis

This paper will describe a new project at KTH concerning road network vulnerability, as well as present some early results. The aim of the project is to develop the methodology of vulnerability analysis for road networks and to illustrate how this methodology can be used for generating a basis for...

Tags: Network, Methodology, Vulnerability, Analysis, Networking

White papers 2006-05-13

Integrating Automated Test Generation Into the WYSIWYT Spreadsheet Testing Methodology

This paper presents an automated test generation methodology for spreadsheet languages. The authors' methodology is driven by the end user's request, allowing the user to generate test inputs for a specific du-association or cell, or at the whole-spreadsheet-level. This methodology is tightly integrated with the highly interactive spreadsheet programming environment,...

Tags: Methodology, Spreadsheet, Productivity

White papers 2006-04-01

Selecting the Right Project Management Methodology

Many professionals are not aware of the differences between project management methodologies and System Development LifeCycles SDLCs / product methodologies, or why it is important to use a consistent project management approach. The two types of methodologies are significantly different as they are designed to address different issues and achieve...

Tags: Methodology, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

White papers 2006-03-06

Project Management Using Event Chain Methodology

Any projects are affected by a large number of events risks, which can significantly change the course of a project. These events may form groups of related events or event chains. The paper discusses a proposed methodology of modeling the software project using event chains. The event chains methodology can...

Tags: Project Management, Event, Methodology, Modeling, Research & Development, Business Operations

White papers 2006-01-23

A Study of Software Methodology Analysis: "Great Taste or Less Filling"

Software project management methodologies that have developed in the past couple of decades have done so to address the endemic problem of software project failures caused, in a large part, by lack of planning and poor execution. Methodologies like Waterfall, Sashimi, Spiral and Agile have all become key tools in...

Tags: Software, Software Project, Methodology, Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Productivity, Management, Software/Web Development

White papers 2005-10-03

Project Management & Software Development Methodology

Aside from the commercially available methodologies such as Prince 2 and Rational Unified Process, there are many methodology developed to suit individual organisations. This white paper sets out to provide a better understanding of methodologies, and how they can be developed and implemented. It is important to differentiate between a...

Tags: Methodology, Project Perfect, Project Management Methodology, Software Development, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, It Operations, It service Management, Management

White papers 2005-06-27

Business Analysis Using "Method H"

A workshop with users using a structured methodology is the best way to elicit requirements. There are many methodologies including functional decomposition, DFD, Workflows, Use Cases etc that can be used. A workshop however is not always feasible. "Method H" can provide a useful framework for gathering requirements if you...

Tags: Methodology, Workshop, Analysis, Project Perfect, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

White papers 2005-06-27

Methodology of Knowledge Management Implementation

Today, knowledge is the strategic key resource. Knowledge management is an approach that many commercial companies use to deal with knowledge. Nevertheless, it is still very difficult to find a full description of methodology of KM implementation. The main reason is that similar methodologies are usually part of trade secret...

Tags: Knowledge, Methodology, Formatex, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Data Management

White papers 2005-06-18

A Life-Cycle Cost Estimating Methodology for Nasa-Developed Air Traffic Control Decision Support Tools

This paper describes the development of a Life-Cycle Cost LCC estimating methodology for air traffic control Decision Support Tools DSTs under development by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA, using a combination of parametric, analogy, and expert opinion methods. There is no one standard methodology and technique that is...

Tags: NASA, Methodology, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2005-04-26