In the trend sport CrossFit®, international competition is held at the CrossFit® Games, known worldwide as the definitive fitness test. Since American athletes are the best in the world regarding CrossFit®, there might be influencing factors on inter...
Temperature control systems are a series of processes with large time-delay and non-linear characteristics. Research shows that using fractional-order modeling and corresponding control strategies can better control these processes. At the same time,...
This study aims to collect GPU rendering programs and analyze their characteristics to construct a benchmark dataset that reflects the characteristics of GPU rendering programs, providing a reference basis for designing the next generation of graphic...
The emergence of large-scale quantum computing presents an imminent threat to contemporary public-key cryptosystems, with quantum algorithms such as Shor’s algorithm capable of efficiently breaking RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). Thi...
Published database comparisons usually cover engine pairs, conflate engine and schema effects, and compare queries that compute different results. StreamCart, a realistic e-commerce benchmark, decomposes performance across an optimized relational bas...
We consider the portfolio selection problem faced by a manager under the performance ratio with position and portfolio insurance (PI) constraints. By making use of a dual control method in an incomplete market setting, we find the unique pricing kern...
The purpose of this study was to emphasize that the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method is an important benchmarking tool which provides necessary information for improving business performance. To fulfil the abovementioned goal, we used a sample...
An objective measure of building energy performance is crucial for performance assessment and rational decision making on energy retrofits and policies of existing buildings. One of the most popular measures of building energy performance benchmarkin...
The energy consumption of existing buildings depends on their physical features, climatic conditions, and business activities, such as operating hours and occupancy characteristics. It is necessary to perform a fair assessment of building energy perf...
Smallholder beef cattle farms in South Africa have had low reproductive performance, which has been associated with management practices. Considering current farm management practices, a multi-stage selection study was conducted to assess reproductiv...
This paper describes the development of three main functionalities for a domestic mobile service robot and an automatic benchmarking system used for the systematic performance evaluation of the robot’s functionalities. Three main robot function...
The inefficient water use, and variable and low productivity in Kenyan public irrigation schemes is a major concern. It is, therefore, necessary to periodically monitor and evaluate the performance of public irrigation schemes. This prompted evaluati...
Systems for graph processing are a key enabler for insights from large-scale graphs that are critical to many new advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and blockchain. In this study, we benchmark another two widel...
Climate change, increased government efforts towards sustainable economic growth, and all types of resource constraint have raised concern among academics and practitioners about the path to follow for keeping firms’ competitive advantage in su...
As one of the top contributors to global environmental impact, the building and construction sector has significant potential to mitigate resource consumption both during and after construction. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED...
This paper focuses on the performance of Lithuanian life-cycle second-pillar pension funds. Every such fund first specifies its benchmark and then attempts to follow the benchmark in some way. This is a form of regulation, meaning that every such fun...
This study highlights the necessity for efficient database management in continuous authentication systems, which rely on large-scale behavioral biometric data such as keystroke patterns. A benchmarking framework was developed to evaluate the Postgre...
In the 5G intelligent edge scenario, more and more accelerator-based single-board computers (SBCs) with low power consumption and high performance are being used as edge devices to run the inferencing part of the artificial intelligence (AI) model to...
Protein structure prediction is an important issue in structural bioinformatics. In this process, model quality assessment (MQA), which estimates the accuracy of the predicted structure, is also practically important. Currently, the most commonly use...
This paper presents three hybrid AC/DC topologies for the CIGRE European low-voltage benchmark grid to evaluate their impact on voltage regulation, current compliance, and power-sharing capability under realistic operating conditions. The proposed to...
Numerical modeling of tsunami evolution, propagation, and inundation is complicated due to numerous parameters involved in the phenomenon. It is important to assess the performance of numerical codes that solve tsunami motion, as well as flow and vel...
In an effort to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings, it is necessary to first evaluate the energy performance of those buildings. Since it is difficult to obtain detailed information on existing buildings, the challenge is how to cond...
Benchmarking techniques are useful and simple tools to analyze the performance of the collective irrigation in the Water User Associations (WUAs) towards an increase in service sustainability. Several benchmarking techniques have been proposed to pro...
Considering the large number of optimisation techniques that have been integrated into the design of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) over the last three decades, the Java interpreter continues to persist as a significant bottleneck in the performance...
This paper presents a benchmark for peak detection algorithms employed in fiber Bragg grating spectrometric interrogation systems. The accuracy, precision, and computational performance of currently used algorithms and those of a new proposed artific...
Engineering benchmark problems with specific characteristics have been used to compare the performance and reliability of metaheuristic algorithms, and water distribution system design benchmarks are also widely used. However, only a few benchmark de...
This study investigates the strategic decision-making abilities of large language models (LLMs) via the game of Tic-Tac-Toe, renowned for its straightforward rules and definitive outcomes. We developed a mobile application coupled with web services,...
In Canada, higher educational institutions (HEIs) are responsible for a significant portion of energy consumption and anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Improving the environmental performance of HEIs is an important step to achieve nation...
The proliferation of sensor networks in critical infrastructure, healthcare monitoring, and smart city applications demands robust privacy-preserving mechanisms for data verification. Zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (zk...
CrossFit® began as another exercise program to improve physical fitness and has rapidly grown into the “sport of fitness”. However, little is understood as to the physiological indicators that determine CrossFit® sport performance...
Efficient interaction between PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) applications and MySQL databases is essential for the performance of modern web systems. This study systematically compares the two most widely used PHP APIs for working with MySQL databases&...
Benchmarking has been central to performance evaluation for more than four decades. Reinhold P. Weicker’s 1990 survey in IEEE Computer offered an early, rigorous critique of standard benchmarks, warning about pitfalls that continue to surface i...
This paper deals with a comparative analysis and benchmarking of drinking water supply systems and water supply sector in the selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe. These include the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. The artic...
Offshore mariculture is critical for global food security and economic development. Advances in deep learning and data-driven approaches, enable the rapid and effective monitoring of offshore mariculture distribution and changes. However, detector pe...
Schemes for the assessment of farm animal welfare and assurance of welfare standards have proliferated in recent years. An acknowledged short-coming has been the lack of impact of these schemes on the welfare standards achieved on farm due in part to...
Serverless computing has grown massively in popularity over the last few years, and has provided developers with a way to deploy function-sized code units without having to take care of the actual servers or deal with logging, monitoring, and scaling...
The exponential growth of user-generated video content necessitates efficient summarization systems for improved accessibility, retrieval, and analysis. This study presents and benchmarks a multimodal video summarization framework that classifies seg...
Optimizing HPC systems based on performance factors and bottlenecks is essential for designing an HPC infrastructure with the best characteristics and at a reasonable cost. Such insight can only be achieved through a detailed analysis of existing HPC...
Mobile application workloads are inherently driven by user interactions and are characterized by short execution phases and frequent behavioral changes. These properties make it difficult for traditional micro-architecture analysis approaches, which...
In 2008, the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE TM46 UC) presented an annual-fixed thermal energy benchmark of 240 kWh/m2/yr for university campus (UC) buildings as an attempt to reduce energy consumption in public buildings....
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The literature reports some experiences regarding the design of integrated healthcare Performance Evaluation Systems (PES) applied in Low- and Middle-income Countries (LMIC). This study describes the design of an integrated and bottom-up PES aimed at...
In sustainability and environmental performance assessment, as in many other multidimensional policy contexts, Benefit of the Doubt (BoD) composite indicators are widely used to compare units across multiple dimensions. However, their interpretation...
Selecting a data-management subsystem is a consequential decision in data-intensive applications, including AI pipelines that rely on low-latency storage. Such decisions are often informed by lightweight, application-specific benchmarks whose measure...
OpenFOAM is a CFD software widely used in both industry and academia. The exaFOAM project aims at enhancing the HPC scalability of OpenFOAM, while identifying its current bottlenecks and proposing ways to overcome them. For the assessment of the soft...
Based on an analysis of TOP500 results, a functional dependence of the performance of clusters without accelerators according to the Linpack benchmark on their parameters was determined. The comparison of calculated and tested results showed that the...
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In arid regions such as Saudi Arabia, wastewater treatment (WWT) facilities (meeting promulgated standards) need to adapt their continuous performance improvement (CPI) for long-term sustainability. To achieve this, the facilities need to improve the...
Key exchange mechanisms are foundational to secure communication, yet traditional methods face challenges from quantum computing. The Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM) is a post-quantum cryptographic key exchange protocol with...
The calibration of suspension geometry involves highly nonlinear kinematic relationships and leads to challenging optimization landscapes that are difficult to explore efficiently with classical local methods. Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimizat...
Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI) is a powerful technology used to detect and analyze malicious software inside Virtual Machines (VMs) from outside. Asynchronously accessing the VM’s memory can be insufficient for efficiently monitoring what...
Potential evapotranspiration (PET) is a critical component of the water cycle, driving plants’ growth and survival. This study focused on estimating the daily potential evapotranspiration (PET) in a forest site in Northern Greece and assessing...
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