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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
Modified PSO Based Channel Allocation Scheme for Interference Management in 5G Wireless Mesh Networks, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2022, nr 2
Full text linkEfficient channel management is a challenge that next-generation wireless networks need to meet in order to satisfy increasing bandwidth demand and transmission rate requirements. Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is one of such efficient channel allocation methods used in 5G backhaul wireless mesh networks. In this paper, we propose a power demand-based channel allocation method for 5G backhaul wireless mesh networks by employing NOMA and considering traffic demands in small cells, thereby improving channel utility. In this scheme, we work with physical layer transmission. The foremost aim is to mutually optimize the uplink/downlink NOMA channel assignment in order to increase user fairness. The approach concerned may be divided into two steps. First, initial channel allocation is performed by employing the traveling salesman problem (TSP), due to its similarity to many-to-many double-side user-channel allocation. Second, the modified particle swarm optimization (PSO) method is applied for allocation updates, by introducing a decreasing coefficient which may have the form of a standard stochastic estimate algorithm. To enhance exploration capacity of modified the PSO, a random velocity is included to optimize the convergence rate and exploration behavior. The performance of the designed scheme is estimated through simulation, taking into account such parameters as through put, spectral efficiency, sum-rate, outage probability, signal to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR), and fairness. The proposed scheme maximizes network capacity and improves fairness between the individual stations. Experimental results show that the proposed technique performs better than existing solutions
Trust Management Scheme Based on Hybrid Cryptography for Secure Communications in VANETs
No full textInternational audienceVehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) are used to improve traffic management and reduce the number of road accidents by providing safety applications. However, VANETs are susceptible to a number of security attacks from malicious entities. To secure the network against these attacks, most of the researchers have proposed various security schemes based on cryptography and trust management. While both cryptography and trust management are effective to some extent, each scheme has some flaw to fully secure the network. In this paper, we propose a trust management scheme based on hybrid cryptography (TMHC) to secure VANET to a larger extent. As authentication is an integral part of trust establishment and secure communications between vehicles, the proposed TMHC integrates hybrid cryptography based authentication for efficient and robust trust management scheme. The hybrid cryptography includes, asymmetric identity-based (ID-based) digital signature and symmetric hash message authentication code (HMAC). The trusted road-side unit (RSU) evaluates trust-value, whereas, agent trusted authority (ATA) computes trust-value of vehicle based on its reward-points. The results are gained with extensive simulations to validate the proposed scheme. The results show that the proposed scheme meets security requirements and performs effectively. The communication overhead, computation overhead, storage overhead, and end-to-end delay of the proposed scheme were improved by 6% to 15%, 9% to 23%, 7% to 19%, and 4% to 15.85%, respectively, as compared to existing schemes
Enhancement of data transmission using optimized multi-cell approach in 5G backhaul wireless mesh network
Get PDFThe millimeter wave (mmWave) band and its usage has taken an attention in this 5G creation as its implementation can provide ultra-high speed data transmission in wireless network. This is much better than the centimeter wave-band as it has limitations on the bandwidth usage. While considering the 5G networking with the backhaul-topologies, the network and userequipment performance depends on the selection of serving receiving nodes (RNs) of the user-equipment (UE). Therefore, the algorithms that reduces the complexity of the UE association and the backhaul traffic-routing must be chosen, which thereby maximizes the efficiency of the spectrum and energy of network. The modifications are done to the Multicellular local solution (McLS) approach, which leads to our proposed algorithm that is, improved against the channel information estimation-errors. The optimized multi-cell approach (OMcA) is formed by combining the improved-parameter, the precoder, mean square error (MSE) weighted-variable and receive filter. The proposed OMcA is compared with some other existing technique in order to evaluate the performance in terms of sum rate (SR)
On-demand QoS and Stability Based Multicast Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2014, nr 3
Full text linkFinding a connection path that remains stable for suciently longer period is critical in mobile ad hoc networks due to frequent link breaks. In this paper, an on-demand Quality of Service (QoS) and stability based multicast routing (OQSMR) scheme is proposed, which is an extension of ad hoc on-demand multicast routing protocol (ODMRP) to provide QoS support for real time applications. The scheme works as follows. Each node in the network periodically estimates the parameters, i.e., node and link stability factor, bandwidth availability, and delays. Next step is creation of neighbor stability and QoS database at every node by using estimated parameters. The last sequence is multicast path construction by using, route request and route reply packets, and QoS and stability information, i.e., link/node stability factor, bandwidth and delays in route information cache of nodes, and performing route maintenance in case of node mobility and route failures. The simulation results indicate that proposed OQSMR demonstrates reduction in packet overhead, improvement in Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), and reduction in end-to-end delays as compared to ODMRP, and Enhanced ODMRP (E-ODMRP)
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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