Planguage helps with requirement specification to focus on the most critical requirements; by demanding numeric definition for variable (scalar) requirements; by making sure you obtain and specify benchmark levels for performance and resource attributes and by encouraging specification of constraints.
If contractors hit specified benchmarks, initially a discrepancy of 10% or less, they'll be rewarded with extra credit on the bid.
States have wide discretion in setting eligibility criteria and benefits, though they are subject to minimum federal standards and must provide benefits similar to those in one of several specified benchmark insurance plans.
Floating-rate bonds are also issued, on which the coupon resets periodically to a rate tied to LIBOR, Treasury bond yields or some other specified benchmark.
Moreover, this paper proposes measures of performance that objectively quantify the fuel consumption, acceleration rate, engine thermal loading and propeller cavitation during trial, design and off-design conditions in specified benchmark manoeuvres, within an hour simulation time.
More recently, professional societies [ 6], provider groups [ 74] and accreditation organizations [ 75] across multiple countries [ 76] have proposed ICU readmission as a quality indicator, but they have not specified benchmark values.
We therefore specify distinct benchmarks for the power analyses: we seek to have good power for (a) OR = 3 and a variant with a frequency of 10%; (b) OR = 2 for a common variant (>20%).
While IDMEF is intended to be a standard data format that automated intrusion detection systems can use to report alerts about events that they deem suspicious, XCCDF is used to specify security checklists and benchmarks amongst others.
The application mix has been formalized and specified using general benchmarks such as SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation).
To gauge the use of ENDF/B-VII.0 and JEFF-3.1.1 nuclear data libraries in the fast reactor applications, two recent OECD/NEA computational benchmarks specified by Argonne National Laboratory were calculated.
