A note on figures of merit

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ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review archive
Volume 4 , Issue 3 (July 1975) table of contents

Pages: 1 - 3

Year of Publication: 1975

ISSN:0163-5999

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Dieter Bahr

Lufthansa German Airlines (DLH), Flughafen, Lufthansa Basis, West Germany

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

There are different ways to compute figures of merit (FOM). You may use Morris' [1] or Merrill's method [2] or create any new one. But, in my opinion, that does not answer the question whether these numbers are nonsense or not.

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	1	Michael F. Morris, Kiviat graphs: conventions and "figures of merit", ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, v.3 n.3, p.2-8, October 1974 [doi>10.1145/1041691.1041692]
	2	H. E. Barry Merrill, A technique for comparative analysis of Kiviat graphs, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, v.3 n.1, p.34-39, March 1974 [doi>10.1145/1041619.1041622]

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Tuncer I. Ören, Concepts and criteria to assess acceptability of simulation studies: a frame of reference, Communications of the ACM, v.24 n.4, p.180-189, April 1981

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