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Obfuscatory measurement

Description: ''Obfuscatory measurement'' is the practice, deliberate or not, of obscuring the true performance of a system through the use of misleading measures. Many of the traditional and widely used measures of computer system performance are obfuscatory: they measure the wrong things, the right things wrongly, or nothing at all. Several obfuscatory measures are considered; those aspects of the system they are thought to measure are contrasted with those that they actually measure; and alternative measu… more
Date: July 25, 1977
Creator: Stevens, D. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Information technology resources assessment

Description: This year`s Information Technology Resources Assessment (ITRA) is something of a departure from traditional practice. Past assessments have concentrated on developments in fundamental technology, particularly with respect to hardware. They form an impressive chronicle of decreasing cycle times, increasing densities, decreasing costs (or, equivalently, increasing capacity and capability per dollar spent), and new system architectures, with a leavening of operating systems and languages. Past ass… more
Date: January 1, 1992
Creator: Stevens, D. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Principles of effective performance measurement

Description: As with any endeavor connected with trendy words and phrases, {open_quotes}performance measurement{close_quotes} means different things to different people. To some, performance means {open_quotes}customer satisfaction{close_quotes}, and little, if anything, else. To others, it is productivity; to still others, it is procedural. In most real-world situations there are elements of all three of these dimensions. Whatever your definition of performance, it is important that it be clear in your own… more
Date: July 1, 1996
Creator: Stevens, D. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Multi-cultural network security

Description: Education and awareness are widely acknowledged to be among the fundamental issues of Internet security, but only in the sense of making Internet users more security conscious. For the Internet to achieve its promise as an information highway, however, a complementary education effort is needed. If adequate Internet security is to be achieved, we must also increase the awareness of the professional security community of the requirements, attitudes, and habits of the many different cultures that… more
Date: April 1, 1996
Creator: Stevens, D. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Information technology resources assessment

Description: This year's Information Technology Resources Assessment (ITRA) is something of a departure from traditional practice. Past assessments have concentrated on developments in fundamental technology, particularly with respect to hardware. They form an impressive chronicle of decreasing cycle times, increasing densities, decreasing costs (or, equivalently, increasing capacity and capability per dollar spent), and new system architectures, with a leavening of operating systems and languages. Past ass… more
Date: January 1, 1992
Creator: Stevens, D.F. (ed.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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