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Uma abordagem baseada em ontologias para integração semântica de sistemas
Get PDFIn order to properly support the whole organization’s business process, systems should be integrated. However, integration is a complex problem, especially for large and dynamic organizations. In general, each system runs independently and implements its own data and process models. These models are not shared between systems, leading to several conflicts, including technical, syntactical and, especially, semantic conflicts. This heterogeneity is considered one of the major difficulties of the integration problem. In this context, ontologies can be used as an interlingua to map concepts and services used by the different enterprise applications, in a scenario of access to data and services via a shared ontology. In this work we present an Ontology-Based Approach for Semantic Integration (OBA-SI) that concentrates efforts in the integration requirements analysis and modeling. In this approach, integration is addressed in a high level of abstraction, looking for getting semantic agreement between the systems at the conceptual level. A premise of the proposed approach is that the assignment of semantics and the use of ontologies must be independent of the integration solution itself. The proposed approach deals with integration in three layers: data, service and process. To accomplish this, conceptual and behavioral models of the systems to be integrated are compared in the light of a reference ontology, which is responsible for assigning semantics to the shared items of the systems. Thus, to illustrate our approach, we present a real case of its application in integrating the version control system Subversion and a system for controlling changes, in order to support a Software Configuration Management process.Geralmente, sistemas são construídos por diferentes desenvolvedores, em diferentes momentos, sem uma preocupação com o estabelecimento de um significado comum aos itens comunicados pelos mesmos. Em geral, cada sistema é executado separadamente e implementa o seu próprio modelo de dados e de processo. Esses modelos não são compartilhados entre os sistemas, o que abre espaço para diversos tipos de conflitos, incluindo conflitos sintáticos e semânticos. Essa heterogeneidade é considerada uma das maiores dificuldades no problema da integração. Neste contexto, ontologias podem ser usadas como uma interlíngua para mapear conceitos e serviços usados por diferentes sistemas, que acessariam dados e serviços por meio de ontologias compartilhadas.
Neste presente trabalho defende-se a ideia de que a integração semântica é uma tarefa complexa e bastante subjetiva e, por isso, deve ocorrer em um nível mais alto de abstração. Tomando por base esta consideração, foi desenvolvida OBA-SI (Ontology-Based Approach for Semantic Integration), uma abordagem de integração semântica de sistemas que concentra esforços na modelagem conceitual e na análise dos requisitos de integração. Nessa abordagem, a integração semântica é realizada em um alto nível de abstração, provendo acordo semântico entre os sistemas no nível conceitual. OBA-SI lida com a integração nas três camadas de integração: dados, serviços e processos. Para tal, modelos conceituais dos sistemas (representando sua estrutura e comportamento), bem como do processo de negócio por eles apoiado, são comparados à luz de ontologias, usadas para atribuir semântica aos itens compartilhados entre os sistemas no apoio ao processo de negócio considerado. Os modelos são compatibilizados por meio de mapeamentos entre seus elementos. Todo esse processo de atribuição de semântica e uso de ontologias é independente da solução da integração. A fim de se testar a presente abordagem, foi realizado um estudo de caso no qual ela foi aplicada na integração semântica de dois sistemas de Gerência de Configuração de Software, usando ontologias de domínio e de tarefa
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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