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D5.5 - The xSGO (Applicative) Framework implementation
No full textThis document describes the initial implementation of the xSGO Applicative Framework. The 'theory' of the framework was already described in the deliverable D5.4 already released. The idea understanding this document is to offer a 'general view' of the whole framework and its capabilities. The main idea is that the framework will be not the only addition of single, independent, tools but a structured tool able to aid the user in implementing collaborative business
D2.1 - TexWIN Use Cases
No full textThe objective of this report is to develop sector-dependent use-cases, which will be used as a guideline for further work related to development, integration and testing. These use cases analyse the industrial processes and provide a clear description of the requirements, criticalities, expectations and industrial context to which the TexWIN system will response with novel functionalities for industrial process optimisation. The use cases will also be the starting point for the demonstrators. Furthermore the facts and conditions, which have to be considered for factory operation in the textile and the plastic sector, are identified and collected in a structured way. The factories to be considered comprise textile spinning, textile weaving, textile finishing (including dyeing), and plastics extrusion processes. Particular attention is put to feed-backward and feed-forward control structures
5.4 - The xSGO Knowledge Infrastructure Specification
No full textThis document defines the structure of the xSGO Knowledge Infrastructure for smart organisations. This infrastructure aims to provide a complex collaborative framework for enabling the European textile and garment industry to easy integrate and share information about new technologies and materials. In particular we introduce a semantic vision for the framework management in order to improve knowledge and data exchang
D5.9 xSGO Knowledge Exchange Infrastructure (KEI)
No full textThis document describes the functionalities of the KEI (Knowledge Exchange Infrastructure) created up existing MODA-ML documents and ebXML standard. The KEI is an enabling set of tools capable to simplify the agreement process that underlies the collaboration set up between two or more companies
QFD for a SME Network of the Wood Sector to Improve Competitiveness and Sustainability
No full textThe QFD methodology, in spite of being quite old, it is not widespread and tested in the Italian ecosystem, in particular in SME networks. In this paper we report our experience in the application of the QFD to a SME network in the wood sector, with the aim to improve the competitiveness and innovation capacity, and prefiguring a new way to collaborate in business relationships, finally increasing sustainably through a short supply chain; through the experience we highlight the QFD potentialities, as tested by the SME network in the definition and development of the first PEFC certificated musical instrument. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Supporting software interoperability using standardised interfaces: Issues and needs
No full textThis paper reports the experience, gained in two different European research projects, TexWIN and ARTISAN, in connecting software prototypes with pre-existing enterprise software like ERP and Scheduler. The two systems aim to support human in optimizing the production processes, but their functioning clearly depends also on the collaboration with external software systems; this collaboration is needed for production data collection and the interfacing with enterprise machine control systems. Activities in the projects regarded the analysis and design of a communication system for the data exchange with the enterprise software: various possibilities and existing standards were considered and the feasibility of their adoption established but, despite the declared project objectives, the standard based interfaces were not implemented. The aim of this paper is to describe both the followed approach to introduce standards in the research project activities and to propose a first analysis of the reasons for the missing concrete adoption of standardized interfaces. Copyright © 2015 by the paper's authors. Copying permitted only for private and academic purposes
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
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