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An adapted discrete firefly algorithm for routing order pickers in manual warehouses
No full textWarehouse management is a vital logistics activity that can affect supply chain costs. Of all the warehouse processes, order picking is one of the most time consuming and expensive, mainly due to the travel time spent by the picker to collect the different items of a generic picking list. In line with this consideration, this paper shows the application of a metaheuristic algorithm for routing order pickers in manual warehouses and minimizing the total distance covered. The proposed approach is an adaptation of the Discrete Firefly Algorithm (DFA), a nature-inspired algorithm based on the flashing behaviour of fireflies. The algorithm, developed under Microsoft ExcelTM, is then tested on an assumptive warehouse by taking into account ten picking lists composed of ten items, small number allowing the exact solution to be identified by examining the whole set of possible combinations and, accordingly, be compared with DFA solutions. Furthermore, results are also compared with those obtained from different heuristic routing policies (traversal, return and largest gap), from a heuristic algorithm commonly used for the vehicle routing problem (i.e. the Clarke and Wright saving algorithm) and from a metaheuristic algorithm namely the Water Wave Optimization (WWO). The computational analysis demonstrates that the proposed algorithm is generally able to provide better results than the heuristic routing policies and the heuristic algorithm examined; moreover, the adapted DFA procedure is always able to identify the optimal solution for the problem investigated
Un modello per la localizzazione degli impianti di smaltimento dei rifiuti solidi urbani
No full textSoftware per la pianificazione e la gestione di un servizio di smaltimento dei rifiuti solidi
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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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Full text linkDispelling 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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