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Service Selection and Composition in Opportunistic Networks
No full textOpportunistic computing is a new computational paradigm enabling mobile users to access the heterogeneous services present in a pervasive mobile environment. With respect to conventional service-oriented approaches, in opportunistic computing services are provided by the users' mobile devices themselves, and are accessed exploiting opportunistically direct contacts between devices, i.e. without relying exclusively on fixed infrastructures such as the cloud. Pair-wise contacts are exploited to collect information on services and providers available in the network. A proper support may exploit this information to choose the most efficient composition of services satisfying a service request issued either by a user or an application.
This paper defines a support for service selection and composition in opportunistic environments based on a mathematical model able to describe the different phases of the execution of a service composition. The model enables an estimation of the execution time of a composition and is exploited by the support for choosing the best composition among a set of available alternatives. The paper presents a set of simulations proving the effectiveness of our approach. The experiments show that our approach achieves better query resolution time and better load balancing of the service requests on the providers with respect to reference alternative approaches
Improved automatic maturity assessment of Wikipedia medical articles
No full textThe Internet is naturally a simple and immediate mean to retrieve information. However, not everything one can find is equally accurate and reliable. In this paper, we continue our line of research towards effective techniques for assessing the quality of online content. Focusing on the Wikipedia Medicinal Portal, in a previous work we implemented an automatic technique to assess the quality of each article and we compared our results to the classification of the articles given by the portal itself, obtaining quite different outcomes. Here, we present a lightweight instantiation of our methodology that reduces both redundant features and those not mentioned by the Wiki Project guidelines. What we obtain is a fine-grained assessment and a better discrimination of the articles’ quality, w.r.t. previous work. Our proposal could help to automatically evaluate the maturity of Wikipedia medical articles in an efficient way
Maturity assessment of Wikipedia medical articles
No full textRecent studies report that Internet users are growingly looking for health information through the Wikipedia Medicine Portal, a collaboratively edited multitude of articles with contents often comparable with professionally edited material. Automatic quality assessment of the Wikipedia medical articles has not received much attention by Academia and it presents open distinctive challenges. In this paper, we propose to tag the medical articles on the Wikipedia Medicine Portal, clearly stating their maturity degree, intended as a summarizing measure of several article properties. For this purpose, we adopt the Analytic Hierarchy Process, a well known methodology for decision making, and we evaluate the maturity degree of more than 24000 Wikipedia medical articles. The obtained results show how the qualitative analysis of medical content not always overlap with a quantitative analysis (an example of which is shown in the paper), since important properties of an article can hardly be synthesized by quantitative features. This seems particularly true when the analysis considers the concept of maturity, defined and verified in this work. © 2014 IEEE
Selezione e composizione di servizi in reti mobili auto-organizzanti
No full textLe reti opportunistiche sono un caso particolare di reti mobili
auto-organizzanti. La tesi tratta il problema dell’invocazione di
servizi remoti in questo ambiente. Sono stati sviluppati algoritmi
distribuiti e modelli validati tramite simulazioni per la selezione
delle migliori soluzioni alle richieste di utenti e applicazioni
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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