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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
the sound of software tranquillity 170 000x magnification
No full textThis sound file is an artistic investigation into software tranquillity. A trace of the Linux kernel was made using ftrace during one second of running a laptop with no open programs. The trace was then sonified at 170 000 times the original duration, resulting in this 47 hours 13 minutes and 30 seconds long piece of software art music
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
INCREMENT : an hybrid approach for modeling and analyzing regulatory safety requirements in the large
No full textLes systèmes de contrôle-commande importants pour la sûreté de fonctionnement doivent répondre à un certain nombre d’exigences, au premier rang desquelles se trouvent les exigences réglementaires, édictées par les autorités nationales et complétées par un ensemble de recommandations pratiques et de textes normatifs. Les exigences de ce domaine sont peu formalisées, les relations de traçabilité, et par conséquent l'organisation des exigences de ce vaste domaine est souvent implicite. Enfin, les passerelles entre contextes nationaux différents sont très peu développées. Les travaux de cette thèse se situent dans ce contexte industriel en partenariat avec EDF R&D et au sein du projet CONNEXION regroupant les acteurs majeurs du contrôle-commande nucléaire français. Les contributions de la thèse s'articulent autour de l'approche INCREMENT (Intrumentation aNd Control regulatory REquirement Modeling Environment) qui adresse les deux premiers challenges présentés, et en particulier : (1) la formalisation du domaine où nous proposons à la fois une description du domaine et un métamodèle permettant une capitalisation et une vue globale d'un référentiel d'exigences, (2) une base outillée pour l'acquisition automatique de documents, un environnement graphique pour la manipulation de modèles et l'apport de techniques de recherche d'information pour la traçabilité des exigences, (3) une approche originale avec une hybridation entre modélisation et recherche d'information pour une amélioration de la traçabilité des exigences. Le métamodèle proposé et ses outils sont utilisés dans l'industrie dans le projet CONNEXION. Notre approche hybride a permis dans nos expérimentations de réduire, en moyenne, la taille de ces espaces de 65% comparé aux approches standard de recherche d'information, sans en dégrader le contenu.Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Systems important to safety must conform to their requirements, where regulatory requirements are first class entities, written by national safety authorities and completed using a set of national recommendation guides or standards. The global domain knowledge is scattered, not formalized and traceability links and the organization within the domain are implicit. Bridges between different national practices are not developed, whereas the understanding of requirements and practices variability concerns becomes a significant industrial issue. The thesis sets up in an industrial context with EDF R&D and the CONNEXION project that gathered the French nuclear I&C industry. Its contributions are defined around the INCREMENT approach (Instrumentation aNd Control Regulatory Requirement Modeling Environment) that addresses the two first challenges previously introduced. In particular, they consist in: (1) the domain formalization itself by the proposal of a metamodel that allows a high level capitalization of a requirements corpus as well as its organization, (2) a tool-support basis to gather partial knowledge from the textual documents, manipulate such models that conform to the proposed metamodel, and Information retrieval techniques to support better requirements traceability, (3) the proposal of an original hybrid approach, mixing both metamodeling and information retrieval, and combine them in a mutual beneficial joint use. The metamodel and its tool support are used in the industrial context of the CONNEXION project. Where information retrieval techniques for requirements traceability suffer from large sets of false positives limitations, our hybrid approach allowed us to reduce this noise and the size of the candidate links research space by a mean of 65% without decreasing their global quality
An approach of combining model-based testing with product Ffamily management
No full textL'ingénierie des lignes de produits est une approche utilisée pour développer une famille de produits. Ces produits partagent un ensemble de points communs et un ensemble de points de variation. Aujourd'hui, la validation est une activité disjointe du processus de développement des lignes de produits. L'effort et les moyens fournis dans les campagnes de tests de chaque produit peuvent être optimisés dans un contexte plus global au niveau de la ligne de produits. Le model-based testing est une technique de génération automatique des cas de test à partir d'un modèle d'états et de transitions construit à partir des exigences fonctionnelles. Dans cette thèse, nous présentons une approche pour tester une ligne de produits logiciels avec le model-based testing. La première contribution consiste à établir un lien entre le modèle de variabilité et le modèle de test, à l'aide des exigences fonctionnelles. La deuxième contribution est un algorithme qui extrait automatiquement un modèle de test spécifique à un produit membre de la famille de produits sous test. L'approche est illustrée par une famille de produits de tableaux de bord d'automobiles et expérimentée par un industriel du domaine aéronautique dans le cadre du projet Européen MBAT.Software product line engineering is an approach that supports developing products in family. These products are described by common and variable features. Currently, the validation activity is disjointed from the product lines development process. The effort and resources provided in the test campaigns for each product can be optimized in the context of product lines. Model-based testing is a technique for automatically generating a suite of test cases from requirements. In this thesis report, we present an approach to test a software product line with model-based testing. This technique is based on an algorithm that establishes the relationship between the variability model released with OVM and the test model, using traceability of functional requirements present in both formalisms. Our contribution is an algorithm that automatically extracts a product test model. It is illustrated with a real industrial case of automotive dashboards and experimented by an industrial of aeronautic domain in the MBAT European project context
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