Mechanisms for Assessment and Evaluation Sample Clauses

Mechanisms for Assessment and Evaluation. The Project Board communicates regularly (by email, telephone, or meetings if necessary) to assess the progress of the project and to discuss corrective measures if the progress is insufficient. Objective evaluation of the project will be done according to the criteria listed in Section 2, supplemented by several other criteria. We consider the following criteria: 1. Evaluation according to the effectiveness of the self management mechanisms. This evaluation will mainly be done in WP5. We will evaluate the four axes of self management, namely configuration/upgrading, fault tolerance, performance, and security. This evaluation will be done in three ways: a. The first evaluation will be theoretical. We will do formal reasoning and proofs for the algorithms used in the self-managing architecture. b. The second evaluation will be a qualitative evaluation of industrial usage scenarios. These scenarios will primarily come from the industrial partners France Telecom R&D and Stakk, although we expect that the industrial experience of the other partners will provide more scenarios. c. The third evaluation will be a quantitative evaluation of industrial trace data. This will use the traffic generator of France Telecom R&D and the Stakk trace data to make quantitative verifications of the ability of the system. 2. Scientific results. We will evaluate the project according to the number and quality of publications in international journals and conferences and how these publications are cited.