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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
A reactive architecture for RoboCup competition
Full text linkWe illustrate PaSo-Team (The University of Padua Simu- lated Robot Soccer Team), a Multi-Agent System able to play soccer game for participating to the Simulator League of RoboCup competition. PaSo-Team looks like a partially reactive system built upon a number of specialized behaviors, just designed for a soccer play game and generating actions accordingly with environmental changes. A general description of the architecture and a guideline of main ideas is presented in the paper, whereas a more detailed description of actual implementation is given in the appendix
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