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Enhancing the cultural heritage between visual technologies and virtual restoration. Case studies to models for visual communication
No full textEnhancement of the cultural heritage is not simply a matter of preserving material objects but comes full circle only when the heritage can be enjoyed and used by the community. This is the rationale behind this paper: the application to exploring projects for the Casa del Fascio (Fascist Party Office) and the building complex of Foro Mussolini in Littoria (now Latina), by the architect Oriolo Frezzotti. Starting with consistent iconographic documentation integrated with bibliographic research and comparison with similar cases, the historical process was retraced and interpreted, reconstructed three-dimensional hypotheses of the figural unity were formulated, and interactive application was created. The application refers to the area of “virtual restoration”, the only possibility for non-material histories and works, a field in which visual technologies can prolong the critical “eye” to which recomposition of the figural combination is entrusted
Roots of ‘Parametric Thinking’ in Palladio’s Villas. Surveying, interpreting and visual programming the plates from I quattro libri di architettura
No full textIn this work we want to link the considerations relating to the rectangular ratios and harmonic proportions of Palladio's plans, through the automation of the Shape Grammar rules rewritten here in Visual Programming Language. This operation allows to program generalized automatisms for the construction of some Palladian villas (e.g. Villa Thiene, Villa Sarego, Villa Poiana), cataloguing them in families mainly linked to the size of the tartan grid used (e.g. 5 x 3). This experimentation could show how algorithmic thought has distant roots, finding in the contemporary era a new digital life through software and procedures now available to the designer
Techniques and Methods to Evaluate Human-Centered Symbiotic AI Systems
No full textArtificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming many fields, enabling enhanced automated decision-making processes and the development of autonomous systems. To design high-quality AI systems, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and AI contaminate each other, creating a symbiosis between humans and AI. I am a second-year PhD student in Computer Science with a fellowship in the Future AI Research (FAIR) project. My research project concerns the evaluation of the quality of Symbiotic AI (SAI) systems and, consequently, the definition of an evaluation framework and metrics to evaluate both the human’s and AI system’s performance. This contribution presents a first set of results considering the main opportunities and challenges in this new scenario
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
Cyber Social Security in Multi-Domain Operations
No full textMulti-Domain Operations (MDO) is a military strategy that is being widely adopted integrating capabilities from multiple domains to generate a synergistic effect. It is characterized by actions conducted across different domains and contested environments to neutralize adversary's strengths. The paper presents a logical architecture along two dimensions: Horizontal and Vertical. The Horizontal dimension is characterized by the five domains of MDO (i.e., Maritime, Land, Air, Space, Cyber). Instead, the Vertical dimension identifies the three security operating units: Detection, Response and Prevention. Leveraging the new knowledge gained in each domain, the intersection between these two dimensions allows to redefine detection rules in MDO, formulate new response plans and prevent both known and emerging security threats. Additionally, this work explores the intersection among Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity, emphasizing the benefits of integrating these technologies to enhance defense capabilities
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
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