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The emergence of government evaluation systems in Africa: The case of Benin, Uganda and South Africa
Display/control requirements for automated VTOL aircraft
A systematic design methodology for pilot displays in advanced commercial VTOL aircraft was developed and refined. The analyst is provided with a step-by-step procedure for conducting conceptual display/control configurations evaluations for simultaneous monitoring and control pilot tasks. The approach consists of three phases: formulation of information requirements, configuration evaluation, and system selection. Both the monitoring and control performance models are based upon the optimal control model of the human operator. Extensions to the conventional optimal control model required in the display design methodology include explicit optimization of control/monitoring attention; simultaneous monitoring and control performance predictions; and indifference threshold effects. The methodology was applied to NASA's experimental CH-47 helicopter in support of the VALT program. The CH-47 application examined the system performance of six flight conditions. Four candidate configurations are suggested for evaluation in pilot-in-the-loop simulations and eventual flight tests
Urban food strategies in Central and Eastern Europe: what's specific and what's at stake?
Integrating a larger set of instruments into
Rural Development Programmes implied an increasing
focus on monitoring and evaluation. Against the highly
diversified experience with regard to implementation
of policy instruments the Common Monitoring
and Evaluation Framework has been set up by the EU
Commission as a strategic and streamlined method of
evaluating programmes’ impacts. Its indicator-based
approach mainly reflects the concept of a linear,
measure-based intervention logic that falls short of
the true nature of RDP operation and impact capacity
on rural changes. Besides the different phases of the
policy process, i.e. policy design, delivery and evaluation,
the regional context with its specific set of challenges
and opportunities seems critical to the understanding
and improvement of programme performance.
In particular the role of local actors can hardly
be grasped by quantitative indicators alone, but has
to be addressed by assessing processes of social
innovation. This shift in the evaluation focus underpins
the need to take account of regional implementation
specificities and processes of social innovation as
decisive elements for programme performance.
Optimal Incentive Contract with Endogenous Monitoring Technology
Recent technology advances have enabled firms to flexibly process and analyze
sophisticated employee performance data at a reduced and yet significant cost.
We develop a theory of optimal incentive contracting where the monitoring
technology that governs the above procedure is part of the designer's strategic
planning. In otherwise standard principal-agent models with moral hazard, we
allow the principal to partition agents' performance data into any finite
categories and to pay for the amount of information the output signal carries.
Through analysis of the trade-off between giving incentives to agents and
saving the monitoring cost, we obtain characterizations of optimal monitoring
technologies such as information aggregation, strict MLRP, likelihood
ratio-convex performance classification, group evaluation in response to rising
monitoring costs, and assessing multiple task performances according to agents'
endogenous tendencies to shirk. We examine the implications of these results
for workforce management and firms' internal organizations
PERANCANGAN UI/UX SISTEM MONITORING DAN EVALUASI MUSRENBANG MENGGUNAKAN METODE DESIGN THINKING (Studi Kasus Bappeda Kabupaten Malang)
This study focuses on the design of a UI/UX monitoring and evaluation system for the Musrenbang using the Design Thinking method, specifically for the Bappeda of Malang Regency. The purpose is to address the challenges faced by Bappeda in managing data manually, which is time-consuming and prone to errors. The methods employed include direct interviews with Bappeda staff, empathy mapping, and the development of user personas and journey maps. The results reveal the need for a system that can streamline the Musrenbang evaluation process, ensuring data is organized by department and detailed budget information is included. The novelty lies in the application of Design Thinking to create a user-centered design that enhances the efficiency and accuracy of the Musrenbang monitoring and evaluation process, potentially improving the performance of Bappeda in this domain
Systematic monitoring and evaluation of M7 scanner performance and data quality
An investigation was conducted to provide the information required to maintain data quality of the Michigan M7 Multispectral scanner by systematic checks on specific system performance characteristics. Data processing techniques which use calibration data gathered routinely every mission have been developed to assess current data quality. Significant changes from past data quality are thus identified and attempts made to discover their causes. Procedures for systematic monitoring of scanner data quality are discussed. In the solar reflective region, calculations of Noise Equivalent Change in Radiance on a permission basis are compared to theoretical tape-recorder limits to provide an estimate of overall scanner performance. M7 signal/noise characteristics are examined
ScALPEL: A Scalable Adaptive Lightweight Performance Evaluation Library for application performance monitoring
As supercomputers continue to grow in scale and capabilities, it is becoming
increasingly difficult to isolate processor and system level causes of
performance degradation. Over the last several years, a significant number of
performance analysis and monitoring tools have been built/proposed. However,
these tools suffer from several important shortcomings, particularly in
distributed environments. In this paper we present ScALPEL, a Scalable Adaptive
Lightweight Performance Evaluation Library for application performance
monitoring at the functional level. Our approach provides several distinct
advantages. First, ScALPEL is portable across a wide variety of architectures,
and its ability to selectively monitor functions presents low run-time
overhead, enabling its use for large-scale production applications. Second, it
is run-time configurable, enabling both dynamic selection of functions to
profile as well as events of interest on a per function basis. Third, our
approach is transparent in that it requires no source code modifications.
Finally, ScALPEL is implemented as a pluggable unit by reusing existing
performance monitoring frameworks such as Perfmon and PAPI and extending them
to support both sequential and MPI applications.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, 2 table
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