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Capturing Design Rationale in Concurrent Engineering Teams
No full textthis paper, the word "design" is taken to describe all aspects of an artifacts' description, including the requirements, geometric definition, materials, manufacturing plan, supporting documentation and so on. Capturing Design Rationale for CE Teams Mark Klein - 2 - In order to achieve these benefits, however, significant challenges must be met. The representation we use must allow designers to express their design reasoning in a natural way while at the same time be formal enough to support useful computational services. Since CE teams include multiple participants working on overlapping aspects of the design, concurrent editing must be supported. In addition, the process of describing rationale should impose the minimum possible overhead on the design process. Most existing rationale capture approaches support only individual users and are thus not suited to team contexts (but see [5, 12]). More importantly, most [5, 12, 7, 6] capture the rationale for decision-making in general but not design in particular; they simply add yet another document to the set produced by existing design tools (Figure 1). Figure 1. Rationale Captured as a Distinct Document. Such approaches have limited expressiveness and therefore limited computational usefulness. The corresponding rationale capture tools face the potential of inconsistency between the rationale and design descriptions as well as spotty capture of design rationale and the tendency to waste time on issues that later prove unimportant; the designers cannot focus their discussion on issues revealed by actual inspection of the evolving design description [2]. Capturing Design Rationale for CE Teams Mark Klein - 3 - What we really need are systems that allow CE team participants to conveniently describe the dependencies bet..
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
Supporting Argumentation in Online Political Debate: Evidence From an Experiment of Collective Deliberation
No full textIn this paper we report the results of an e-democracy experiment in which a group of supporters of a large political party were asked to debate online about ways to reform the electoral law. We compare a traditional forum with an online collaborative argumentation platform to capture the various proposals and their associated pros and cons. The aim of the study is to assess the capability of this toolto support online collective deliberation in a real world case,as compared to anonline discussion supported by a forum.By comparing users’ experience across several metrics related to usability, activity levels, and quality of collaboration our findings show that the forum produced more activity and ideas and its users perceived a better quality of the collaboration process, while the argumentation tool helped to reduce the amount of self-referential arguments and encourage viewing and rating of others’ post
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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