47 research outputs found
Hidden connections : Network effects on editorial decisions in four computer science journals
No full textThis paper aims to examine the influence of authors’ reputation on editorial bias in scholarly journals. By looking at eight years of editorial decisions in four computer science journals, including 7179 observations on 2913 submissions, we reconstructed author/referee-submission networks. For each submission, we looked at reviewer scores and estimated the reputation of submission authors by means of their network degree. By training a Bayesian network, we estimated the potential effect of scientist reputation on editorial decisions. Results showed that more reputed authors were less likely to be rejected by editors when they submitted papers receiving negative reviews. Although these four journals were comparable for scope and areas, we found certain journal specificities in their editorial process. Our findings suggest ways to examine the editorial process in relatively similar journals without recurring to in-depth individual data, which are rarely available from scholarly journals
Capacity Management and ITIL in datacenter services
No full textThis thesis deals with the process of Capacity Management. The main objective of the process is to ensure sufficient capacity of existing infrastructure to support daily business operations and projections of future capacity based on the requirements of the business. In the first part the author focuses on the basic performance characteristics of the Capacity Management coming within the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Also, the author analyzes the process of Capacity Management in an unnamed company and compares it with the best practices of ITIL. The second part is derived from the first, where the author discusses the Business Capacity Management and management of the capacity of IS/ICT. The last part of thesis is about Cloud Computing technologies from the Capacity Management point of view, as well as the introduction of such technologies in selected company. Each part consists of both theoretical backgrounds from diverse sources, as well as practical experience of the author
Automatinio valdymo sistemų su vėlinimo grandinėmis sintezės metodai / Methods of synthesis of automatic control systems with delay
No full textThe paper investigates the procedure for introduction of systems containing delay elements. Shortcomings and difficulties in the synthesis of regulators and precompensators of control systems with delays in output and control channel where determined. The author focused on two approaches for the formation of promatrix and synthesis of control systems, considering the factor of delay.
Santrauka
Straipsnyje tiriama sistemų su vėlinimo elementais įterpimo procedūra. Išanalizuoti valdymo sistemų, reguliatorių ir kompensavimo grandžių su vėlinimo elementais išėjime ir valdymo kanale sintezės sudėtingumo aspektai ir trūkumai. Aptarti du promatricų formavimo ir valdymo sistemų sintezės, įvertinant valdomojo objekto vėlinimą, formavimo būdai.
Raktiniai žodžiai: modalinis valdymas; promatrica; įterpimo teorija
The future of the Dollar as the global currency
No full textThe main goal of my bachelor thesis is to consider past and present position of the U.S. Dollar in the world economy and possible development in the future. In the first chapter, I focus on the entry of the Dollar among the world currencies, mainly on the reasons for abandonment the British pound as a former global currency. In the next part, I consider usage and significance of the American currency in the world. The last chapter is aimed at possible future perspectives in the area of the global currencies. Part is mainly concerned on the alternatives of the Dollar in his position. Then I focus on opinions of the experts in this field. Each author shows different point of view on the problem and together, they give broad perspective about the future. Important was also concerning the attitude of China, as the main holder of Dollar reserves
Pamięć zbiorowa a indywidualne wizje przyszłości w filmie Kiriłła Sieriebriennikowa Uczeń
No full textThe article discusses the functioning of collective memory and its manifestations in contemporary Russian cinematography. The author analyzes the play Martyr by the German playwright Marius von Mayenburg and compares it with the film The Student directed by a Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov. The author refers to the concept of collective memory in order to explain its significance in the process of constructing and preserving national identity. On the basis of this analysis it is shown that the youngest generation of Russians are experiencing an identity crisis, and that they are trying to redefine the models and patterns imposed on it in an effort to find its place in today’s world.The article discusses the functioning of collective memory and its manifestations in contemporary Russian cinematography. The author analyzes the play Martyr by the German playwright Marius von Mayenburg and compares it with the film The Student directed by a Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov. The author refers to the concept of collective memory in order to explain its significance in the process of constructing and preserving national identity. On the basis of this analysis it is shown that the youngest generation of Russians are experiencing an identity crisis, and that they are trying to redefine the models and patterns imposed on it in an effort to find its place in today’s world
The Problems and Perspectives of Turkish Economy in the 21st Century
No full textThe fundamental objective of this bachelor thesis is the complex analysis of problems and perspectives of Turkish economy in the 21st century. Its first part is devoted to the characteristics of economic, social, demographic and politic environment within the Turkish republic. The basic and necessary overview of relevant historical background, which determined significantly the status quo, is also added. The second part of the paper deals with the analyses of important and relevant problems within Turkey and also sketches some possible solutions. On the contrary, the third part focuses on any perspectives which can be traced in individual parts of the Turkish economy and states particular scenarios of future development. To every major problem there is also attached the opinion of the author, in separated part of text. The conclusion finally sums up all the pieces of knowledge obtained and also evaluates the fulfilling of partial objectives. The appendices illustrate and amplify properly chosen aspects of the work
Capacity Management and ITIL in datacenter services
No full textTato práce se zabývá procesem Capacity Managementu. Hlavním cílem procesu je zajištění dostatečné kapacity existující infrastruktury, k podpoře každodenních činností podniku a prognóz budoucích kapacit na základě požadavků ze strany byznysu. V první části se autor zaměřuje na představení základních charakteristik Capacity Managementu patřící do rámce Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Také autor provede analýzu procesu Capacity Managementu v nejmenované společnosti a porovná ho s best practices ITIL. Druhá část práce se odvozuje od první, kde se autorem rozebírá návaznost řízení kapacity byznysu a kapacity IS/ICT. V poslední části se jedná o technologie Cloud Computingu v řízení kapacit jako takových, tak i o zavedení daných technologií ve vybrané společnosti. Každá z částí se skládá jak z teoretických podkladů z různorodých zdrojů, tak i z praktických zkušeností autora.This thesis deals with the process of Capacity Management. The main objective of the process is to ensure sufficient capacity of existing infrastructure to support daily business operations and projections of future capacity based on the requirements of the business. In the first part the author focuses on the basic performance characteristics of the Capacity Management coming within the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Also, the author analyzes the process of Capacity Management in an unnamed company and compares it with the best practices of ITIL. The second part is derived from the first, where the author discusses the Business Capacity Management and management of the capacity of IS/ICT. The last part of thesis is about Cloud Computing technologies from the Capacity Management point of view, as well as the introduction of such technologies in selected company. Each part consists of both theoretical backgrounds from diverse sources, as well as practical experience of the author
Promptable Game Models: Text-Guided Game Simulation via Masked Diffusion Models
No full textNeural video game simulators emerged as powerful tools to generate and edit
videos. Their idea is to represent games as the evolution of an environment's
state driven by the actions of its agents. While such a paradigm enables users
to play a game action-by-action, its rigidity precludes more semantic forms of
control. To overcome this limitation, we augment game models with prompts
specified as a set of natural language actions and desired states. The result-a
Promptable Game Model (PGM)-makes it possible for a user to play the game by
prompting it with high- and low-level action sequences. Most captivatingly, our
PGM unlocks the director's mode, where the game is played by specifying goals
for the agents in the form of a prompt. This requires learning "game AI",
encapsulated by our animation model, to navigate the scene using high-level
constraints, play against an adversary, and devise a strategy to win a point.
To render the resulting state, we use a compositional NeRF representation
encapsulated in our synthesis model. To foster future research, we present
newly collected, annotated and calibrated Tennis and Minecraft datasets. Our
method significantly outperforms existing neural video game simulators in terms
of rendering quality and unlocks applications beyond the capabilities of the
current state of the art. Our framework, data, and models are available at
https://snap-research.github.io/promptable-game-models/.Comment: ACM Transactions on Graphics \c{opyright} Copyright is held by the
owner/author(s) 2023. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted
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Record was published in ACM Transactions on Graphics,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/363570
Онейропоэтика сборника рассказов Николая Байтова „Зверь дышит”
No full textThe article attempts to trace the process in which the selected narratives, based on the poetics of dreams, are constructed. This analysis focuses on the stories The Beast and Don Delta from Nikolai Baitov’s latest collection of stories The Beast Breathes, published in 2014. In the stories which were chosen as the examples, the presence of oneiric forms is both the primary compositional principle and the element determining the story’s genre affiliation. It is shown that the basic principle for organizing the literary dream in the story The Beast is the use of the poetic trope of metabole. Experiment with form underlies Don Delta, the story that follows. This leads the author to create a new genre form – the rough draft of a dream. Through his specific means of organising the dream form, Baitov reveals new possibilities for language in constructing a literary dream, while at the same time illustrating a paradoxical interaction between “signifier” and “signified” as well as their potential for creating literary reality
