Ranking is often used to determine who will receive pay raises from a limited pool of money, or for other decision-making processes. Ranking employees, particularly for determining promotion, and pay, or even for providing developmental feedback simply makes no sense. It is not a neutral process or just a costly...
RESTON, Va. -- Nextel Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:NXTL) today announced it has been named to the BusinessWeek 50, the magazine's ranking of top performing companies within the Standard & Poor's 500. Nextel ranked 9th among all public companies and achieved the highest ranking by a national telecommunications provider.
This white paper document reports the experience of applying Genetic Programming GP to the ranking function discovery problem leveraging the structural information of HTML documents. The paper also reveals that the empirical experiments using the web track data from recent TREC conferences shows that it is possible to discover better...
Risk ranking is a common methodology for making risk based decisions without conducting quantitative risk analysis. The basis for risk ranking is the risk matrix that has both a consequence and frequency axis. The product of consequence and frequency provides a measure of risk. Each consequence /frequency pair on the...
Forbes magazine, which has been ranking the Best Metro Areas For Business for the last eight years, tried its hand at ranking the 50 states on 30 metrics in six main categories: business costs, economic climate, growth prospects, labor, quality of life and regulatory environment. The new ranking, done from...
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. -- World Omni Financial Corp./CenterOne Financial Services CenterOne has been assigned a STRONG ranking, the highest possible, by Standard & Poor's (S&P) as a consumer finance, automobile loan and lease servicer. This is the first time S&P has ever awarded a ranking of any kind in the...