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Innopolis University - From Zero to Hero: Ten Years of Challenges and Victories
No full textThis open access book describes the development of Innopolis, a young Russian university established in 2012 to focus on teaching excellence in computer science, engineering, and robotics. It reports on the problems that were faced in the first decade of its development, and the adopted solutions. It shows how the key aspects for the development of the faculty, the curricula, the university structure, and the challenge of internationalization have been successfully addressed by the university management and professors, and how the solutions are scalable for other newly founded research organizations.
The book is divided in five parts: “The Beginning” describes the very early days in general, from the foundation and start-up of the university with the related processes. “The People” reports on the initial hiring of the faculty members, the selection of students, and the curriculum development. “The Activities” provide information about the creation of the single research institutions and labs, and their relation to industry. “The Future” gives an outlook on the planned internationalization and faculty strategy. Eventually, “A Visual Journey” shows a selection of photographs illustrating highlights of the whole process and the current achievements.
The processes and the components described built the basis for the development of Innopolis, and many of them still have a big impact on its present and its future. The fewer mistakes are made at the beginning, the higher the probability to fully achieve the initial goals
Covid 19: How Really is the Epidemiological Curve? Epidemiological Curve Growth Rate is Less than One
Full text linkThis paper shows some views on the mathematical structure of the diffusion of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), often claimed to have a positive exponential structure. However, we find that the exponential growth rate is past the inflection point and that growth is much slower than this implication. It presents conclusions on the future expected outcome of the current situation-not only in terms of diffusion of the disease but also for the hysteria that have been created around it
Assessing the Process of an Eastern European Software SME Using Systemic Analysis, GQM, and Reliability Growth Models: A Case Study
No full textThis paper reports on the experience of the authors in quan-
titatively assessing the development process of an Eastern
European software SME (Small or Medium Size Enterprise).
The company produces a very successful workflow and doc-
umentation tool, features about 30 full time developers and
has a customer base of about 40 major organizations. It has
hired the authors as consultants to address quality and pro-
ductivity issues raised by the upper management and cus-
tomers. The adopted approach is based on systemic analysis,
and starts with a comprehensive GQM session with the top
managers of the company, to fully define the scope of work,
and progresses analysing the documentation, interviewing
the manager and the lead developers, and quantitatively
analysing the issue tracking system in place. Specific at-
tention is placed in identifying “schismogenesis”, situations
that may lead to unresolvable conflicts. The approach has
been proven successful in providing a result in short fore-
casted timeframe, and systemic analysis has been effective
in spotting the most critical situations present in the com-
pany. The result has been a set of prioritized recommenda-
tions, centered first in eliminating the schismogenetic situ-
ations and then ranging from adopting a more quantitative
process control, to streamline the activities, to organize a
line of produc
Proceedings of 6th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications
No full textNot only the military world but the whole defence and security community has
always demonstrated interest and expectation in the evolution of software application and in the way it has been designed and manufactured through the years. The
first real standard in the area of software quality was originated by the US DOD
(2167A and 498) to demonstrate the need for this particular user, the US
Department of Defence, to implement repeatable and controllable processes to
produce software to be used in high-reliability applications. Military systems,
security systems, and most of the mission critical systems rely more and more on
software than older systems did.
Security in airports and train stations rely more and more on the correct functioning of specific software applications. This reliance on software and its reliability
is now the most important aspect of military systems, and the same will happen in
the close related which share the same “mission criticality”. SEDA has, of course, a
special attention for the military area which is seen as one of the most challenging
and then as a benchmark for software reliability. The military-specific area of
application includes mission data systems, radars/sensors, flight/engine controls,
communications, mission planning/execution, weapons deployment, test infrastructure, programme life cycle management systems, software integration laboratories, battle laboratories, and centres of excellence. Even if it is slightly less
significant, the same scenario applies to the land component of the armed forces.
Software is now embedded in all the platforms used in operations, starting from the
wearable computers of the dismounted soldier up to various levels of command and
control, and every detail of modern operations relies on the correct behaviour of
some software product. Many of the mentioned criticalities are shared with other
public security sectors such as the police, the firefighters, and the public health
system.
The rising awareness of the critical aspects of the described software diffusion
convinced the Italian Army General Staff that a moment of reflection and discussion
was needed and with the help of the universities, the SEDA conference cycle was
started. For the third conference SEDA 2014, it was decided to shift the focus of the
event slightly away from the traditional approach to look at innovative software engineering. Considering the title: software engineering for defence application,
this time, the emphasis was deliberately put on the “defence application” part. For
the first time, papers not strictly connected to the “pure” concept of software
engineering were accepted together with others that went deep into the heart of this
science. The reasons for this change were, first of all, the need for this event to
evolve and widen its horizon and secondly the need to find more opportunities for
the evolution of military capabilities. In a moment of economic difficulty, it is of
paramount importance to find new ways to acquire capabilities at a lower level of
funding using innovation as a facilitator. It was deemed very important, in a period
of scarce resources to look ahead and leverage from dual use and commercial
technologies. Software is, as said, a very pervasive entity and is almost everywhere,
even in those areas where it is not explicitly quoted. A mention was made to the
changes in the area of software engineering experienced in the Italian Army and the
starting of a new methodology which would then become “Italian Army Agile” and
then DSSEA® iAgil
Quality Attributes in Practice: Contemporary Data
No full textIt is well known that the software process in place impacts the quality of
the resulting product. However, the specific way in which this effect occurs is still
mostly unknown and reported through anecdotes. To gather a better understanding
of such relationship, a very large survey has been conducted during the last year and
has been completed by more than 100 software developers and engineers from 21
countries. We have used the percentage of satisfied customers estimated by the soft-
ware developers and engineers as the main dependent variable. The results evidence
some interesting patterns, like that quality attribute of which customers are more sat-
isfied appears functionality, architectural styles may not have a significant influence
on quality, agile methodologies might result in happier customers, larger companies
and shorter projects seems to produce better product
“Salvaguardia della Biodiversità: Polimorfismi del locus microsatellitare linked al gene della Rojal Gel Protein in Apis mellifera"
No full textGoing 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
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