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Energy-Efficient Tracking Strategy for Wireless Sensor Networks
No full textIn this paper, the problem of tracking cooperative mobile nodes in wireless sensor networks is addressed. Aiming at an efficient resource solution, the research adopts a strategy of combining target tracking with node selection procedures in order to select informative sensors to minimize the energy consumption of the tracking task. We devise a cluster-based architecture to address the limitations in computational, battery power and communications ofthe sensor devices. To track mobile nodes two kinds ofparticle filters, bootstrap and unscented particle filter, are considered to estimate the actual position and predict future locations. The particle filters have been already used in tracking algorithms, but their energy efficiency has received less attention. To save energy, a node selection procedure is proposed. The node selection problem is formulated as a cross-layer optimization problem and it is solved using greedy algorithms
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
Posterior Cramer-Rao bound for range-based targed tracking in sensor networks
No full textIn the paper, we consider the computation of the posterior Cramer-Rao bound in a problem of target tracking based on received signal strength measurements. This is a theoretical lower bound on the estimation error while assessing the performance of any kind of estimation algorithm. Here the method is applied to a nonlinear filtering problem of tracking a node in wireless sensor networks. Specifically
the bound is computed against the root mean square error of two nonlinear filters: bootstrap and unscented particle filter.JRC.G.6 - Security technology assessmen
Energy-Efficient Collaborative Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks
No full textIn this article, the problem of collaborative tracking of mobile nodes in wireless sensor networks is addressed. Aiming at an efficient resource exploitation, the research adopts a strategy of combining target tracking with node selection procedures in order to select informative sensors to minimize the energy consumption of the tracking task. We layout a cluster-based architecture to address the limitations in computational power, battery capacity and communication capacities of the sensor devices. We consider the computation of the posterior Cramer-Rao bound (PCRB) on the tracking accuracy based on received signal strength measurements (RSS). To track mobile nodes two particle filters are used: the bootstrap particle filter and the unscented one, both in the centralized and in the distributed manner. Their performance are compared through simulation with the theoretical lower PCRB. The node selection problem is formulated as a cross-layer energy minimization problem, whose solution is addressed by a greedy-type algorithm, both in the static scenario and in the dynamic scenario namely with a mobile target.JRC.G.6 - Security technology assessmen
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
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