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A recommendation framework of Agile approaches for the advanced automotive industry : Integrating Agile approaches with cutting-edge industrial automation and robotics towards a smart and agile production
No full textThis study investigates the integration of Agile approaches with hightech advancements such as digitalisation, automation, interconnected systems, and IoT within the automotive industry. The primary aim is to provide a comprehensive framework for Agile approaches tailored to the advanced automotive industry. It addresses the growing need for adaptability in development processes to meet market demands and rapid technological overevolving as vehicles transform into computers on wheels. The study begins with a thorough literature review of both Agile approaches and emerging industrial technologies. This theoretical foundation identifies gaps in existing research and underscores the necessity for a framework to integrate agile approaches with high techniques. Empirical data were collected by a qualitative case study, through interviews with professionals from large, global automotive companies, including Volvo Cars and Volvo Construction Equipment (VCE). These interviews provided realworld insights into Agile approaches' opportunities, challenges, and tailoring to meet industryspecific needs. A framework for agile implementation in the automotive industry is constructed and comprised of an extensive literature review and profound insights from the results of the content analysis of the interviews. This framework emphasises cultivating an Agile mindset, leveraging modern technologies, fostering customer collaboration, streamlining documentation processes, embracing changes promptly, improving planning methodologies, increasing flexibility, and acquiring relevant skills. Key findings reveal that process development methods must evolve alongside advancing technologies. Industries must adapt by tailoring Agile approaches and incorporating hybrid approaches, as reverting to previous methods is not a choice. This research contributes to both theory and practice by providing a comprehensive framework for Agile approaches in the automotive industry. It bridges the gap between hightech solutions and Agile approaches, offering actionable insights for enhancing the development process, operation and operation, and competitiveness. Despite its contributions, the study acknowledges limitations, such as focusing on large automotive companies in Sweden and relying on just only a qualitative approach. These factors may impact the generalizability of the findings. Future research should expand the scope, incorporate mixed methods, and validate the framework in diverse industrial settings
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
A recommendation framework of Agile approaches for the advanced automotive industry : Integrating Agile approaches with cutting-edge industrial automation and robotics towards a smart and agile production
No full textThis study investigates the integration of Agile approaches with hightech advancements such as digitalisation, automation, interconnected systems, and IoT within the automotive industry. The primary aim is to provide a comprehensive framework for Agile approaches tailored to the advanced automotive industry. It addresses the growing need for adaptability in development processes to meet market demands and rapid technological overevolving as vehicles transform into computers on wheels. The study begins with a thorough literature review of both Agile approaches and emerging industrial technologies. This theoretical foundation identifies gaps in existing research and underscores the necessity for a framework to integrate agile approaches with high techniques. Empirical data were collected by a qualitative case study, through interviews with professionals from large, global automotive companies, including Volvo Cars and Volvo Construction Equipment (VCE). These interviews provided realworld insights into Agile approaches' opportunities, challenges, and tailoring to meet industryspecific needs. A framework for agile implementation in the automotive industry is constructed and comprised of an extensive literature review and profound insights from the results of the content analysis of the interviews. This framework emphasises cultivating an Agile mindset, leveraging modern technologies, fostering customer collaboration, streamlining documentation processes, embracing changes promptly, improving planning methodologies, increasing flexibility, and acquiring relevant skills. Key findings reveal that process development methods must evolve alongside advancing technologies. Industries must adapt by tailoring Agile approaches and incorporating hybrid approaches, as reverting to previous methods is not a choice. This research contributes to both theory and practice by providing a comprehensive framework for Agile approaches in the automotive industry. It bridges the gap between hightech solutions and Agile approaches, offering actionable insights for enhancing the development process, operation and operation, and competitiveness. Despite its contributions, the study acknowledges limitations, such as focusing on large automotive companies in Sweden and relying on just only a qualitative approach. These factors may impact the generalizability of the findings. Future research should expand the scope, incorporate mixed methods, and validate the framework in diverse industrial settings
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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