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Digital transformation and data management
No full textNew technologies such as Internet of Things, blockchain and artificial intelligence have boosted the digital transformation of organisations and enabled a radical change in the provision of services deeply changing the related business models. At the same time digital technologies generate massive amounts of data and, as business and IT experts know, managing the resulting information is a growing challenge. There is a need to build out IT systems and ecosystems that use data and information to create more efficient processes. I-Iowever, many organizations are falling behind the curve, or haven”t taken significant steps to address information management requirements.
The aim of this book is to provide to students and practitioners the basic knowledge for understanding the complexity of the challenges proposed by new digital technologies and introduce the tools for managing data coming from the business and living environments
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
Overcoming the digital divide: Poste c'è.
No full textThis chapter explains the way how information systems that integrate different proprietary technologies can help in overcoming the digital divide. The Posta c’è service is addressed to the over 65 population that represents a constantly growing target, the so called “Silver Economy”, with particular needs and low level of digital literacy. Poste c’è leverages on the capillarity of the Poste Italiane network and the advanced technologies of the providers Apple and IBM
SAP - Intelligent Enterprise Resource Planning
No full textBy 2020, the global Gross Domestic Product is predicted to originate in 50% from the digitized activities with a growth in each industry (International Data Corporation, 2017). In the scenario where the digital transformation will be following the business in everyday activities, companies like SAP are assuming an important role. Established in 1972 as a team of five colleagues, after more than forty years SAP is considered a world leader in enterprise applications. SAP has been supporting businesses (80% SMEs) as ambitiously exposed by its slogan “Helping the world run better”. SAP has changed enterprise software and reinvented how the business was done and nothing seems to stop its willingness to innovate. The cloud ERP, powered by the Internet of Things, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Analytics, and Business Intelligence are the challenges that SAP customers are starting to address. The Intelligent Enterprise framework recently developed represents the highest expression of how SAP is being aligned with the most advanced technologies. The focus of the company was and will remain to bring those technologies to solve the business problems. In the situation where one-third of technology investments will be driven by the digital transformation initiative in the next few years and where this transformation will move towards cloud-enabled ERP and enterprise applications SAP with its
applications, technologies and platform seems to be the right partner. In this chapter, through the experience of two Italian companies - Feralpi and iGuzzini illuminazione - the development of the right solutions by SAP in the adventure of digital transformation is presented
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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