Can research quality be measured meaningfully? Whether it can or not does not interfere with the desire to do so if the motivation is strong enough. This paper discusses the Unite...
: In the development of software systems, quality properties should be considered along with the development process so that the qualities of software systems can be inferred and p...
Many recently proposed perceptual image quality assessment algorithms are implemented in two stages. In the first stage, image quality is evaluated within local regions. This resu...
An open problem for Distributed Information Retrieval systems (DIR) is how to represent large document repositories, also known as resources, both accurately and efficiently. Obt...
We analyze quality-contingent prices as a mechanism for mitigating the effects of quality uncertainty in e-commerce and IT goods services. A contingency pricing contract specifie...