It is very important to understand the metrics that are applied within IT processes in today's industry, why they are important, and in what types of companies they are used. This article presents the results of a systematic ...

Industrial are moving towards more integrated supply chains (SCs) to remaincompetitive. To be effectively designed and managed, these integrated SCs needto be measured and evaluated in a consistent way. The formal definition ...

Abstract Background Detecting the differences in gene expression data is important for understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms. Although the differentially expressed genes are a large component, differences in ...

This article aims to analyze the use of metrics in "social media" and "site performance indicators" and their relationship with brand value by cosmetic companies in Brazil. In this research, it was necessary to create a ...

Metric indices support efficient similarity searches in metric spaces. This problem is central to many applications, including multimedia databases and repositories handling complex objects. Most metric indices are designed ...

Inrobotic mapping and simultaneous localization and mapping, the ability to assess the quality of estimated maps is crucial. While concepts exist for quantifying the error in the estimated trajectory of a robot, or a ...

Understanding the relationship between landscape pattern and environmental processes requires quantification of landscape pattern at multiple scales. This will make it possible to relate broad-scale patterns to fine-scale ...

Besides landscape ecological studies, the traditional approach to trying to understand ecological processes that occur in a landscape is the use of spatial statistics. However, this does not take into account that many of ...