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Usages of Semantic Web Services Technologies in IoT Ecosystems and its Impact in Services Delivery: A survey
Get PDFInternet of things (IoT) has begun to emerge in our daily life through the huge number of smart services provided by the devices that deploy around us. Vague and uncertainty in attributes that using in describing services, different levels of quality of each service and the limitation in capabilities of IoT devices are affect and hinder the process of discovering or selecting services. The services in IoT need to be well described to enable users to receive their services that relevant to their query. This survey will investigate the most popular semantic services models and explore the use of these models in enhancing services discovery and services selection in IoT domain. Furthermore, the survey will investigate the evaluation metrics used by each study and compare the results that they obtained. 
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
Awareness of social engineering among IIUM students
No full textAlthough most organizations around the world currently pay more attention to securing information systems by means of sophisticated security tools, their information systems still remain breachable. The interpretation of this reality is that the hackers resort to the use of social engineering instead of using their technical skills to acquire information. The concept of social engineering is essentially to manipulate the users of a system, that are considered to be the weakest links on the chain, in order to get said information. The objective of this study is to prove that users of information systems are considered to be the real threat themselves. In this study, we assume that the lack of awareness of social engineering among users makes information systems susceptible to numerous kinds of breaches. In addition to that, the study aims to examine whether IT students possess more awareness of social engineering than students from other faculties. To address these problems, the data was collected from 245 students of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), via an online survey and questionnaire. Moreover, a phishing phone experiment conducted among a small number of students. The exhibited results showing that a total of 114 students were exposed to social engineering attacks during the last six months, and almost 38% of these attacks through E-mail
Impact of parallel projects management
No full textThe dramatic increase in the number of projects with the fact of increased stiffness in competition, the strength of
enterprises faces a challenge to deliver the expected on time. Enterprises seem to be in dilemma regarding the
implications of running simultaneous projects. Yet only a few have investigated the implications of parallel
projects. The need of the industry is to formulate a model that will help them to face this challenge without really
making changes to their structures. Therefore this paper aims to highlight the influence of parallel project
management on project schedule, budget and product’s quality as well. To explore the implication, interviews
were conducted among project managers from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) who
represented different work sectors. There seems to be a consensus that handling more than one project at a time
is a challenge. The findings of this study show that most of project mangers suffer from the problem of change of
focus from one project to another. As a result, some projects do not finish on time, lack quality standards, and
need extra budget
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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