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Proceedings of the 22nd International Configuration Workshop
Full text linkThe 2020 Workshop on Configuration continues the series of successful workshops organized within IJCAI, AAAI, and ECAI since 1999. Starting from 2013, the workshop was held independently from major conferences. Even in this 22nd edition, beside researchers from a variety of different fields, it attracted a significant number of industrial participants from major configurator vendors as well as from end-users. The 2020 Workshop on Configuration is a standalone two-day event. It was planned to takes place in Vicenza, Italy at the Department of Management and Engineering of Padova University. Due to COVID19 pandemic, it has been moved online. A total of 18 papers were selected for presentation on the Configuration Workshop. All papers underwent to full paper blind review with a minimum of two independent reviewers per paper. All papers have been substantially changed to comply with the reviewers’ observations. The themes of the technical sessions are knowledge representation & reasoning, peculiar technologies for configuration (machine learning, conversational agents (chatboats and voiceboats), social software, Microsoft excel), configuration of products in use (reconfiguration, adaptation, renovation, maintenance, repair), business applications with a special focus on the provision of empirical data to depict the state of the art on configuration practices
Product configuration activities in SMEs and their digitalization: Preliminary results of a survey study
Full text linkThe presence of customization in manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is widely known, as is the competitive pressure that even they have to deal with. We also know that there are examples of successful applications of product configurators in SMEs, even in quite small ones. However, we do not know the extent of the presence, in SMEs, of the various product configuration activities or the intensity of their digitalization. The present study offers some preliminary results of research aimed at gaining further insights into product configuration activities in SMEs. Specifically, the present study provides preliminary empirical results gathered in a sample of 18 Italian SMEs. It emerges that configuration activities are frequently present in manufacturing SMEs and that there is a high potential for their digitalization
Assessing configurators user need for social interaction during product configuration process
No full textCommercial websites, including online sales configurators, are increasingly implementing technologies that enable social interactions, in order to provide users with social interaction possibilities that characterize retail shopping. One of these implementation strategies refers to connecting commercial websites to social software. Social software are web-based applications that support web users in social networking, interacting, sharing content and thus, in collecting feedback from various referents (e.g. user's online contacts, other web users, company representatives). Given the variety of possible connections between social software and configurators, mass customizers need to choose which connection(s) to implement, if any, to fulfil the configurator user need for social interaction. To make this choice, it is useful to be able to: (a) identify the various facets of the social interaction as user/consumer's navigation behaviour (b) measure the strength of configurator users’ need for social interaction. Being able to assess the user need for social interaction could help mass customizers enhance the proactive support provided to the user during his/her configuration process. Accordingly, this study presents an exploratory analysis (a) by examining various facets of the social interaction need and subsequently (b) by proposing a multi-item scale to measure the social interaction need. The present paper aims at contributing research into the key role of feedback delivered to users from different referents during the configuration process and sheds further light on new online customers’ needs
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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