Evaluation (disambiguation)

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Evaluation is the process of judging something or someone based on a set of standards.

Evaluation may also refer to:

Measurement or appraisal

Computer science

  • 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
  • Eager evaluation or strict evaluation, the model in which an expression is evaluated as soon as it gets bound to a variable
  • 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
  • eval, a function which evaluates a string as though it were an expression, or executes multiple lines of code

Groups or organizations

Other uses

See also