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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449665303321

Autore

Patterson James G

Titolo

Benchmarking basics [[electronic resource] ] : looking for a better way / / James G. Patterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Menlo Park, Calif., : Crisp Publications, c1996

ISBN

1-4175-2428-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (94 p.)

Collana

A Fifty-Minute series book

Disciplina

658.5/62

Soggetti

Benchmarking (Management)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74).

Nota di contenuto

""TITLE""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""PREFACE""; ""ABOUT THE AUTHOR""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""SECTION I Benchmarking: What About It?""; ""OBJECTIVES""; ""WHAT IS BENCHMARKING?""; ""Understanding Benchmarking: The First Steps""; ""THE ORIGINS OF BENCHMARKING""; ""WHY USE BENCHMARKING?""; ""DEFINE YOUR BENCHMARKING OBJECTIVES""; ""Xerox: A Case in Point""; ""Xerox Benchmarking Partners""; ""OTHER SUCCESSFUL BENCHMARKERS""; ""STATOIL: SUCCESSFUL BENCHMARKING IN EUROPE""; ""A European Benchmarking Success Story""; ""An Historical Example""

""CASE STUDY: A Creative Solution""""SECTION II Why Benchmarking?""; ""WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS TO BENCHMARKING?""; ""OBJECTIONS TO BENCHMARKING""; ""Should You Benchmark?""; ""Convincing Your Boss""; ""SECTION III Types of Benchmarking""; ""SIX TYPES OF BENCHMARKING""; ""Convincing Your Competitor""; ""DECIDING WHAT KIND IS BEST FOR YOU""; ""Internal Benchmarking""; ""Competitive Benchmarking""; ""Collaborative Benchmarking""; ""Shadow Benchmarking""; ""Functional Benchmarking""; ""World-Class Benchmarking""; ""Applying Benchmarking""; ""GOING IT ALONE OR USING A CONSULTANT""

""BENCHMARKING FOR INDIVIDUALS""""Important Questions to Ask""; ""BENCHMARKING FOR SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS""; ""SECTION IV Ready, Set, Go!""; ""BEFORE YOU START TO BENCHMARK""; ""Are You Ready to



Benchmark?""; ""What You Should Benchmark""; ""Business Process Rankings""; ""Benchmarking Trends""; ""LEARNING TO BENCHMARK: THE PDCA CYCLE""; ""BENCHMARKING WITH THE PDCA CYCLE""; ""EXERCISE: Benchmarking Partner Criteria Matrix""; ""BENCHMARKING ACTION PLAN CHECKLIST""; ""PDCA Benchmarking Step-by-Step""; ""THE ETHICS OF BENCHMARKING""; ""SOLUTIONS TO COMMON BENCHMARKING MISTAKES""

""Mistake 1: Lack of Leadership""""Mistake 2: Picking the Wrong People for Your Benchmarking Team""; ""Mistake 3: Failing to Consider Strategic Long-Term Objectives""; ""Mistake 4: Too Many People on the Team""; ""Mistake 5: Teams Taking on Too Much""; ""Mistake 6: Leadership Underestimates Time Commitments""; ""Mistake 7: Picking the Wrong Benchmarking Partners""; ""Mistake 8: Assuming Every Project Needs a Site Visit""; ""Mistake 9: Management Failing to Inspect Benchmarking Results""; ""Mistake 10: Failing to Identify Targets in Advance""; ""Mistake 11: Collecting Too Much Data""

""Mistake 12: Focusing on Numerical Targets Rather Than the Process""""BENCHMARKING QUICK CHECK""; ""BENCHMARKING REVIEW""; ""IN CONCLUSION""; ""SECTION V Appendix""; ""QUALITY AND BENCHMARKING REFERENCES""; ""World Wide Web (WWW) Pages of Interest""; ""Usenet Groups of Interest""; ""THE MALCOLM BALDRIGE NATIONAL QUALITY AWARD CRITERIA""; ""THE MALCOLM BALDRIGE NATIONAL QUALITY AWARD CRITERIA""; ""The Four Elements""; ""1995 BALDRIGE AWARD EXAMINATION CRITERIA�ITEM LISTING""



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299491503321

Titolo

Support Vector Machines Applications / / edited by Yunqian Ma, Guodong Guo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-02300-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

004.6

006.3

006.31

620

Soggetti

Signal processing

Image processing

Speech processing systems

Computer networks

Computational complexity

Computational intelligence

Computer organization

Electrical engineering

Signal, Image and Speech Processing

Computer Communication Networks

Complexity

Computational Intelligence

Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks

Communications Engineering, Networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Augmented-SVM for gradient observations with application to learning multiple-attractor dynamics -- Multi-class Support Vector Machine -- Novel Inductive and Transductive Transfer Learning Approaches Based on Support Vector Learning -- Security Evaluation of Support Vector Machines in Adversarial Environments -- Application of SVMs to the



Bag-of-features Model— A Kernel Perspective -- Support Vector Machines for Neuroimage Analysis: Interpretation from Discrimination -- Kernel Machines for Imbalanced Data Problem and the Use in Biomedical Applications -- Soft Biometrics from Face Images using Support Vector Machines.

Sommario/riassunto

Support vector machines (SVM) have both a solid mathematical background and good performance in practical applications. This book focuses on the recent advances and applications of the SVM in different areas, such as image processing, medical practice, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, applied statistics, business intelligence, and artificial intelligence. The aim of this book is to create a comprehensive source on support vector machine applications, especially some recent advances.