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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Image Anomaly Detection by Aggregating Deep Pyramidal Representations

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    Anomaly detection consists in identifying, within a dataset, those samples that significantly differ from the majority of the data, representing the normal class. It has many practical applications, e.g. ranging from defective product detection in industrial systems to medical imaging. This paper focuses on image anomaly detection using a deep neural network with multiple pyramid levels to analyze the image features at different scales. We propose a network based on encoding-decoding scheme, using a standard convolutional autoencoders, trained on normal data only in order to build a model of normality. Anomalies can be detected by the inability of the network to reconstruct its input. Experimental results show a good accuracy on MNIST, FMNIST and the recent MVTec Anomaly Detection dataset

    Supervised Anomaly Detection with Highly Imbalanced Datasets Using Capsule Networks

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    Detecting anomalous patterns in data is a relevant task in many practical applications, such as defective items detection in industrial inspection systems, cancer identification in medical images, or attacker detection in network intrusion detection systems. This paper focuses on detection of anomalous images, this is images that visually deviate from a reference set of regular data. While anomaly detection has been widely studied in the context of classical machine learning, the application of modern deep learning techniques in this field is still limited. We here propose a capsule-based network for anomaly detection in an extremely imbalanced fully supervised context: we assume that anomaly samples are available, but their amount is limited if compared to regular data. By using a variant of the standard CapsNet architecture, we achieved state-of-the-art results on the MNIST, F-MNIST and K-MNIST datasets

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    A Neural Network for Image Anomaly Detection with Deep Pyramidal Representations and Dynamic Routing

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    Image anomaly detection is an application-driven problem where the aim is to identify novel samples, which differ significantly from the normal ones. We here propose Pyramidal Image Anomaly DEtector (PIADE), a deep reconstruction-based pyramidal approach, in which image features are extracted at different scale levels to better catch the peculiarities that could help to discriminate between normal and anomalous data. The features are dynamically routed to a reconstruction layer and anomalies can be identified by comparing the input image with its reconstruction. Unlike similar approaches, the comparison is done by using structural similarity and perceptual loss rather than trivial pixel-by-pixel comparison. The proposed method performed at par or better than the state-of-the-art methods when tested on publicly available datasets such as CIFAR10, COIL-100 and MVTec

    Guest Editorial: Security and Privacy for Cloud-Assisted Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Grid

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    Cloud computing has emerged as a new technological domain in the IT industry. Currently, several organizations working in various domains, such as healthcare, finance, manufacturing, smart grid, Internet of Things (IoT), and IT, are increasingly integrating cloud computing with their traditional applications. The key idea behind the usage of cloud computing in IoT is to increase efficiency without compromising the data quality. When it comes to collecting data of thousands or millions of servers, the cloud offers scalability and reduces the computational load on each sensor. The highly configured servers in the cloud are very useful in processing and analyzing the sensors' data. The security of such a shared infrastructure is very crucial. It is the major barrier in the adoption of cloud-based services, followed by issues regarding compliance, privacy, and legal matters. The digitalization of critical infrastructures, such as smart grids (SGs), brings advantages and opportunities for remote access and control. It enables intelligent and online monitoring of these systems, which considerably enhances cyberattacks' vulnerability. Cyberattacks are among the most important threats to SGs. Therefore, efficient control systems should be designed that can detect and isolate cyberattacks to keep the SG reliable and secure operation. This special section aims at providing a forum to discuss the most recent advances on security and privacy in cloud-assisted IoT and SG applications
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