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    "Italia: boom dei domini Internet"

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    In ItalianQuesta rassegna stampa e web raccoglie una selezione di articoli pubblicati da quotidiani, agenzie di stampa e siti Internet a seguito della diffusione del comunicato stampa Cnr relativo all\u27insediamento del direttore dell\u27Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del Cnr, Domenico Laforenza, avvenuto a luglio 200

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    PAL: Exploiting Java Annotations for Parallelism

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    We discuss how Java annotations can be used to provide the meta information needed to automatically transform plain Java programs into suitable parallel code that can be run on workstation clusters, networks and grids. Programmers are only required to decorate the methods that will eventually be executed in parallel with standard Java 1.5 annotations. Then these annotations are automatically processed and parallel byte code is derived. When the annotated program is started, it automatically retrieves the information about the executing platform and evaluates the information specified inside the annotations to transform the byte-code into a semantically equivalent multithreaded or multitask version, depending on the target architecture features. The results returned by the annotated methods, when invoked, are futures with a wait-by-necessity semantics. A PAL (Parallel Abstraction Layer) prototype exploiting the annotation based parallelizing approach has been implemented in Java. PAL targets JJPF, an existing, skeleton based, JAVA/JINI programming environment, as Parallel Framework. The experiments made with the prototype are encouraging: the design of parallel applications has been greatly simplified and the performances obtained are the same of an application directly written in JJPF
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