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Modelling and verification of BPEL business processes
No full textA business process is a complex web service with functions provided by different web services, which are already existing in web and are dynamically integrated for granting a more complex business task. For this reason, business processes have become more and more diffuse in B2B and B2C domains, so that the importance of their activities asks for a high-level of reliability. Methods and tools for supporting automatic system verification and validation could be useful. Among the techniques of automatic verification, we choose Model Checking method, because we applied it efficiently for verification of a single web service and in this paper we extend the area of application also in business processes. Descriptions of the behavior of a business process are coded using a standard language, BPEL4WS, that has broadly spread because it is able to describe a business process as both an executable process and an abstract process. Therefore, we model a BPEL description of a generic business process with a formal model and we formalize correctness properties about the reliability of the business process design. Also, we build a framework that performs automatic verification of formal models of business processes through NuSMV model checker If there is a violation of correctness specifications, NuSMV provides counter-examples, so we can locate errors and effect right changes for correcting business process design
How to Face Anomalies in your Flexible Business Process? The Decision Table Rules!
No full textIn a globalized market, companies are increasingly pushed to implement change projects aimed at creating new value added products and services. So they have to integrate their business processes in order to provide flexible processes and manage information concerning potential business needs, organizational context and human behavior. A decision support is required to manage on one hand all the possible organizational and functional features that the business process must satisfy, on the other hand all the actions needed to implement specific changes on the process in a flexible manner. We propose our decision-table based framework as the suitable solution to manage business knowledge and prevent, detect and support the fixing of anomalies that may compromise the flexible adaptation of the process
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
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
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