1,720,964 research outputs found
Assets and intellectual capital management into the ETC project
No full textOne of the important aspects in the software development process is the knowledge transfer between team members. This process exhibits some critical points: the knowledge transfer during the project and, after its conclusion, towards other projects and towards other teams and communities. How this knowledge should be represented, transmitted and reused is still a matter of scientific debate. Something interesting we can draw from observation of how the man has been accustomed to manage it in his recent past to think on how it should happen now, and under the pressure of time and economic constraints. This article shows an innovative way to represent, manage and transfer knowledge through assets. The aim is to give persistence to the memory of the projects and for this purpose, as a case study, we chose a community project called the Eclipse Italian OTRE (On the Road Eclipse) to show how knowledge can flow more easily through the network of those who work there. The work is the result of cooperation between the University of Naples Federico II and IBM Italy and especially with the Rational brand and the Academic Initiative (Academic, 2012) that is responsible for cooperation with the Italian universities
Persistence of the Memory : an introduction to the asset and intellectual capital management Application into the ETC project
No full textWhat is the relationship between Information Technology and the knowledge that it generates during the systems design? How is this knowledge encoded and passed ? The skills acquired by mankind in the art of writing for the past seven millennia of history, are or are not used for encoding the software project documentation? If the answers are negative, what are the implications of this situation?
In this article we examine these questions and present a viable solution using the tool IBM Rational Asset Manager for the hoarding of intellectual capital developed in the projects. This tool is also adopted in the ETC project to collect, manage and distribute all produced material in the experiments, in order to make it persistent and usable to all students and to teach them the right approach. Students seem to prefer the use and reuse of arrangements because they directly reuse pieces of knowledge; this is also what will be discussed in this paper
Enforcing Team Cooperation using Rational software tools: merging universities and IBM effort together
No full textLa disponibilità di architetture mutuate dall’esperienza Internet per il
mondo dello sviluppo software, veicolate in particolare dall’architettura Jazz, ha
fatto nascere l’idea di un progetto sperimentale di utilizzo delle discipline
dell’ingegneria del software in un ambito collaborativo universitario che
consenta agli studenti e ai docenti la migliore fruizione delle modalità di
insegnamento nelle università, coniugata alle nuove possibilità di
collaborazione e condivisione intrauniversitaria.
Questo documento riporta le idee, la vision, i risultati ottenuti e gli sviluppi
futuri del progetto denominato Enforcing Team Cooperation using Rational
software tools (ETC per brevità) e descrive la collaborazione tra il mondo
universitario italiano e IBM, nell’ambito delle attività dell’Academic Initiative
ETC: Stato dell'arte e prospettive future
No full textIl progetto ETC, acronimo di Enforcing Team
Cooperation by using rational tools, è al suo secon
do anno
di sperimentazione. Questo progetto, di cui si disc
uteranno
lo stato dell'arte e gli sviluppi futuri, coinvolge
IBM Italia nel
suo brand Rational e IBM Italia Academic Initiative
, la
comunità Eclipse Italiana, l'Accademia Aeronautica
Militare
di Pozzuoli e diverse università italiane fra cui l
'università di
Napoli Federico II, università di Milano Bicocca, u
niversità di
Bologna, università di Bergamo, università di Genov
a, in un
primo team di sperimentazione. Nell'ambito di tale
progetto
sono state condotte numerose esperienze didattiche
e di
ricerca che hanno visto coinvolti circa 800 student
i e 49
progetti. ETC è un esempio di collaborazione tra st
udenti per
il raggiungimento di un obiettivo comune attraverso
l’uso di
strumenti moderni e di conseguenza per il miglioram
ento
della didattica in ambito universitario
Towards cloud learning with ETC and Jazzhub
No full textCollaboration is considered as a teaching strategy but, in many cases such as in the programming and software engineering classes, collaboration has to be a learning outcome itself, since students must acquire a specific ability in team working. Thus a suited working environment is needed, that has to be much more than just a flexible Learning Management System. Consequently, a specific project has been launched within the Eclipse italian community in the framework of the Enforcing Team Cooperation (ETC) activity. The aim of the project is that of enforcing and enlarging cooperation activities among a large number of students, all attending programming and software engineering courses at different Universities in Italy. The main idea behind the project is the implementation of a really effective Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) paradigm, to be used for higher education on team cooperation, in software engineering classes for the analysis, design, and development of software programs along their lifecycle. The project, in cooperation with IBM Italy as part of IBM's Academic Initiative and the Italian Eclipse community, has obtained interesting results so far as to build a migration of it into JazzHub IBM cloud platform. In addition, the cloud technology looks promising in order to improve cooperation and formation of student groups on specific objectives besides providing valuable support to the construction of virtual laboratories. This paper will discuss both innovations that cloud technology can provide the teaching of programming and software engineering, and first impressions of students and researchers who have used it
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
- …
