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La gestione di un progetto software sfruttando la cooperazione fra studenti: l’esperienza di On the road Eclipse (OTRE)
No full textCooperative learning in software engineering
Based on the Eclipse ecosystem for
Students from different Universitie
Enforcing Team Cooperation Using Rational SoftwareTools into Software Engineering Academic Projects
No full textIn this paper, the activity related to the development of an
educational project called OTRE is reported. The project involves a number of
students from different Universities, working on activities to be conducted on a
distributed architecture developed with the specific aim of enforcing team
cooperation. This e-learning project is participated by IBM Rational and IBM
Academic Initiative Italy, together with the Italian Eclipse community and
several Italian universities, including University of Napoli Federico II,
University of Milano Bicocca, University of Bologna, University of Bergamo,
University of Genova, University of Salerno, in this first experimentation
Enforcing Team Cooperation: an example of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning in Software Engineering
No full textIn this paper it is presented an example of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), the OTRE experience, as a case study in a larger cooperation projects named ETC (Enforcing Team Cooperation). Collaboration is one of the keywords in education and in computer assisted instruction so that e-learning platforms provide users with specific tools, enabling them to collaborate and/or cooperate so to be able to reach a common objective. Collaboration is considered as a teaching strategy but, in many cases, such as in software engineering classes, collaboration has to be a learning outcome itself, since students must acquire ability in team working. A specific working environment is needed, that has to be much more then just a Learning Management Systems. The authors propose an experimental set-up based on the Eclipse and Jazz technologies
Distributed Social Platforms for Confidentiality and Resilience
No full textSocial networking sites have deeply changed the perception of the web in the last years. Although the current approach to build social networking systems is to create huge centralized systems owned by a single company, such strategy has many drawbacks, e.g., lack of privacy, lack of anonymity, risks of censorship and operating costs. These issues contrast with some of the main requirements of information systems, including: (i) confidentiality, i.e., the interactions between a user and the system must remain private unless explicitly public; (ii) integrity; (iii) accountability; (iv) availability; (v) identity and anonymity. Moreover, social networking platforms are vulnerable to many kind of attacks: (i) masquerading, which occurs when a user disguises his identity and pretends to be another user; (ii) unauthorized access; (iii) denial of service; (iv) repudiation, which occurs when a user participates in an activity and later claims he did not; (v) eavesdropping; (vi) alteration of data; (vii) copy and replay attacks; and, in general, (viii) attacks making use of social engineering techniques. In order to overcome both the intrinsic defects of centralized systems and the general vulnerabilities of social networking platforms, many different approaches have been proposed, both as federated (i.e., consisting of multiple entities cooperating to provide the service, but usually distinct from users) or peer-to-peer systems (with users directly cooperating to provide the service); in this work the most interesting ones were reviewed. Eventually, the authors present their own approach to create a solid distributed social networking platform consisting in a novel peer-to-peer system that leverages existing, widespread and stable technologies such as distributed hash tables and BitTorrent. The topics considered in detail are: (i) anonymity and resilience to censorship; (ii) authenticatable contents; (iii) semantic interoperability using activity streams and weak semantic data formats for contacts and profiles; and (iv) data availability
Learning processes and cooperative development in software engineering
No full textThis reports on the state of advancement of the OTRE project, whose first results were presented during the previous workshop of the Italian Eclipse Community. A wide variety of services and products based on ecosystem Eclipse is being developed, through the interactions between teams composed by groups of students, in different Italian universities. They have joined the project with the aim of learning to develop software systems and services, according to the software engineering principles
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
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