Evaluation is the process of characterizing and appraising something of interest or of determining the value of an expression (mathematics).
Computer science
- determining the value of an expression (programming)
- Eager evaluation or strict evaluation, the model in which an expression is evaluated as soon as it gets bound to a variable
- Evaluation function, also known as heuristic evaluation function or static evaluation function, used by game-playing programs to estimate the advantage of a position
- Evaluation strategy or reduction strategy, a set of rules for defining the evaluation of expressions under β-reduction
- Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT), a network analysis technique used in project management
- Heuristic evaluation, a usability testing method to identify usability problems in a user interface (UI) design
- Lazy evaluation, a technique of delaying computation of expressions until the results of the computation are needed
- Minimal evaluation or short circuit evaluation, an evaluation strategy in which an expression is only evaluated until the point where its final value is known
- Partial evaluation, a technique for program optimization by specialization
- Remote evaluation, the transmission of executable software programs from a client computer to a server computer for execution
- Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), a non-profit organization that aims to produce fair, impartial and meaningful benchmarks for computers
Groups or organizations
Measuring things
Other
- Emergy evaluation, an accounting system developed by Howard T. Odum and colleagues
- Evaluation, the process of judging something or someone based on a set of standards
- Evaluation approaches, conceptually distinct ways of thinking about, designing and conducting evaluation efforts
- Immanent evaluation, a concept used by Gilles Deleuze in Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962)
- Program evaluation, a set of philosophies and techniques to determine if a program 'works'
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), a model for project management invented by US Department of Defense's US Navy Special Projects Office
- Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH), a piece of legislation in the European Union on chemical safety
- Social evaluation, a shared judgement by a set (or community) of agents
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