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An Approach for Supporting Software Partitioning and Reuse in Integrated Modular Avionics
No full textRobust Approach for Supporting Inter-Application Communication and Device Handling in Integrated Modular Avionics
No full textSoftware environment for integrating critical real-time control systems
No full textIn the recent few years, integration of multiple real-time control modules has gained increased acceptance in the industry. Such integration can achieve lower overall hardware costs and reduced level of spares by sharing hardware resources among multiple applications. Single contemporary CPU can now harbor several applications which have been traditionally running on several older and slower computing platforms. However, the integrated approach faces new challenges such as the reusability of existing software and the prevention of fault propagation. The reuse of legacy application code, with minimal modifications, is strongly desirable since the cost of application re-development can be prohibitive. Resource sharing introduces dependencies among applications and thus requires additional design precautions to ensure that the effect of a failure in one application will not spread and impact other applications. This paper describes a two-layer software architecture, which enables the integration of multiple real-time applications while maintaining strong spatial and temporal partitioning among application modules. At the lower layer, a system executive creates multiple virtual machines. Each module accommodates an application with its choice of a real-time operating system. This architecture allows the reusability of existent software modules by enabling the integration of applications written for different real-time operating systems. The paper also addresses some issues related to the inter-application communication and to the handling of I/O devices. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.The research reported in this paper was performed while the authors were working for Honeywell International Inc. The authors are indebted to Dr. Yang-Hang Lee and Mr. James McElroy for their technical comments. The time management aspect of the architecture was presented to the 6th IEEE Real-time Technology and Applications Symposium, Washington, DC, May 2000
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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