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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
Situation awareness in pervasive computing systems: reasoning, verification, prediction
No full textThe paradigm of pervasive computing aims to integrate the computing technologies in a graceful and transparent manner, and make computing solutions available anywhere and at any time. Different aspects of pervasive computing, like smart homes, smart offices, social networks, micromarketing applications, PDAs are becoming a part of everyday life. Context can be defined as information that can be of possible interest to the system. Context often includes location, time, activity, surroundings among other attributes. One of the core features of pervasive computing systems is context awareness – the ability to use context to improve the performance of the system and make its behavior more intelligent. Situation awareness is related to context awareness, and can be viewed as the highest level of context generalization. Situations allow eliciting the most important information from context. For example, situations can correspond to locations of interest, actions and locomotion of the user, environmental conditions. The thesis proposes, justifies and evaluates situation modeling methods that allow covering broad range of real-life situations of interest and reasoning efficiently about situation relationships. The thesis also addresses and contributes to learning the situations out of unlabeled data. One of the main challenges of that approach is understanding the meaning of a newly acquired situation and assigning a proper label to it. This thesis proposes methods to infer situations from unlabeled context history, as well as methods to assign proper labels to the inferred situations. This thesis proposes and evaluates novel methods for formal verification of context and situation models. Proposed formal verification significantly reduces misinterpretation and misdetection errors in situation aware systems. The proper use of verification can help building more reliable and dependable pervasive computing systems and avoid the inconsistent context awareness and situation awareness results. The thesis also proposes a set of context prediction and situation prediction methods on top of enhanced situation awareness mechanisms. Being aware of the future situations enables a pervasive computing system to choose the most efficient strategies to achieve its stated objectives and therefore a timely response to the upcoming situation can be provided. In order to become efficient, situation prediction should be complemented with proper acting on prediction results, i.e. proactive adaptation. This thesis proposes proactive adaptation solutions based on reinforcement learning techniques, in contrast to the majority of current approaches that solve situation prediction and proactive adaptation problems sequentially. This thesis contributes to situation awareness field and addresses multiple aspects of situation awareness. The proposed methods were implemented as parts of ECSTRA (Enhanced Context Spaces Theory-based Reasoning Architecture) framework. ECSTRA framework has proven to be efficient and feasible solution for real life pervasive computing systems.Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy (Dual Award) (Luleå University of Technology
Context reasoning, context prediction and proactive adaptation in pervasive computing systems
No full textThe paradigm of pervasive computing aims to integrate the computing technologies in a graceful and transparent manner, and make computing solutions available anywhere and at any time. Different aspects of pervasive computing, like smart homes, smart offices, social networks, micromarketing applications, PDAs, etc. are becoming a part of everyday life. Context of pervasive computing system is any piece of information that can be of possible interest to the system. Context often includes location, time, activity, surroundings, etc. One of the core features of pervasive computing systems is context awareness – the ability to use context information to the benefit of the system. The thesis proposes a set of context prediction and situation prediction methods on top of enhanced situation awareness mechanisms. Being aware of the future context enables a pervasive computing system to choose the most efficient strategies to achieve its stated objectives and therefore a timely response to the upcoming situation can be provided. This thesis focuses on the challenges of context prediction, but in order to become really efficient and useful, context prediction approaches need to be gracefully integrated with different other aspects of reasoning about the context. This thesis proposes a novel integrated approach for proactively working with context information. In order to become efficient, context prediction should be complemented with proper acting on predicted context, i.e. proactive adaptation. The majority of current approaches to proactive adaptation solves context prediction and proactive adaptation problems in sequence. This thesis identifies the shortcomings of that approach, and proposes an alternative solution based on reinforcement learning techniques. The concept of situation provides useful generalization of context data and allows eliciting the most important information from the context. The thesis proposes, justifies and evaluates improved situation modeling methods that allow covering broader range of real-life situations of interest and efficiently reason about situation relationships. The context model defines the pervasive computing system’s understanding of its internal and external environments, and determines the input for context prediction solutions. This thesis proposes novel methods for formal verification of context and situation models that can help to build more reliable and dependable pervasive computing systems and avoid the inconsistent context awareness, situation awareness and context prediction results. The architecture of pervasive computing system integrates all the aspects of context reasoning and governs the interaction and collaboration between different context processing mechanisms. This thesis proposes, justifies and evaluates the architectural support for context prediction methods. The novel architectural solutions allow encapsulating various practical issues and challenges of pervasive computing systems and handling them on low levels of context processing, therefore, supporting the efforts for efficient context prediction and proactive adaptation
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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