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Method for Generating Coordinating Messages for Distributed Test Scripts in Telecommunications Systems
No full textCurrent approaches for generating tests for telecommunication systems produce scripts that execute a single sequence of actions that verify the implementation under test (IUT) has performed correctly. However, in recent years testing languages, such as TTCN, have been enhanced to facilitate the notion of concurrent testing. Where, a concurrent test script consists of a number of concurrent test components that interact to perform a particular test. This invention describes how to produce the co-ordination messages that are necessary to synchronise concurrent test components in order to check that an IUT exhibits the correct order of events. Note that we assume coordinating messages have a suitably small latency (delay), and the specification does not contain any race conditions
Cutting and Pasting with Requirements Specifications Scenarios
No full textWireless Telecommunications requirements specifications tend to be defined as sets of normative scenarios. These frequently only provide partial coverage of the scenarios that are necessary to give a comprehensive specification. Standard model checking techniques have not been successful in analysing such protocol specifications, first because of the high degree of concurrency that is inherent in such systems, and secondly because the very partial nature of the specifications tends to cause many inconsequential defects to be reported that frustrate the process of identifying key issues that have to be addressed immediately. Typically the inconsequential defects are addressed by adding new scenarios to the requirements, whereas significant defects require structural changes to the design itself and are not solved by adding new scenarios. This paper describes a technique for synthesising tractable phase automata from Message Sequence Chart scenarios that describe major phase transitions in the specifications. These can be automatically analysed to detect certain types of significant interactions between the scenarios that will be invariant under the addition of new scenarios to the requirements specifications
Automatic Generation of Conformance Tests from Message Sequence Charts
No full textOver the past five years our group has developed a tool that automatically generates conformance test scripts from a combination of Message Sequence Charts (MSCs), specifying dynamic behaviour, and Protocol Data Units (PDUs), specifying data formats. This paper outlines how tests are derived from MSCs and PDU specifications, and summarises different test strategies. It describes the testing required to prove conformance of various MSC language features ranging from time constraints to MSC variables, in-line expressions and high-level MSCs. We cover test generation for both single process test scripting and concurrent test scripting, where a test is distributed across autonomous processes, co-ordinating through additional messaging. All of the above aspects have been implemented in our tool that is in widespread use across Motorola. Tool support has not only resulted in cycle-time benefits for test preparation, but quality improvement in the testing process, improved test coverage, and validation of requirements specification
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
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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