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Efficient suboptimal state assignment for large sequential machines
No full textOptimal state assignment is one of the most important problems in the automatic synthesis of sequential machines. State assignment approaches can be divided into: Structural (that construct 'suboptimal' assignments) and statistical (that generate assignments). The author has developed and implemented a new structural method. Analyzing the factors that influence the quality of assignments and performing experiments, it is concluded that the distribution of solutions is close to a normal distribution. Some probabilistic quality measures for assignments and assignment methods are introduced and applied to the structural and random approach. Both approaches are compared and it is indicated that the difficulty in evaluating the quality of an assignment by statistical approach is the main reason why structural approaches can be more efficient than statistical ones
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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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No full textSimultaneous decompositions of sequential machines
No full text\u3cp\u3eLarge sequential machines are difficult to design, to optimize, to implement and to verify. Therefore, methods and CAD tools are needed that can decompose sequential machines. In this paper, we briefly describe the theoretical and practical results that were obtained in the field of simultaneous decompositions which divide the process described by a given sequential machine into a number of interacting parallel partial processes, each implemented by one partial machine.\u3c/p\u3
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