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A theoretical framework for automatic BIM validation and smart contracts in the design phase
No full textIdentification of Indicators and Digital Tools to Enhance Civic Monitoring in Public Procurement
No full textThe paper proposes useful indicators and tools to improve the civic monitoring of public procurement implemented through digital procedures in the construction sector. Despite the construction industry is a key pillar of the global economy, the protection and integrity of public procurement are often exposed to various challenges. To revolutionize the monitoring of public procurement, national and transnational regulations have been issued to supervise the adoption of digital technologies and tools to ensure operations transparency and continuous monitoring of the progress. The presented definition of useful indicators to promote civic monitoring is based on a replicable methodology that starts from the analysis of the state of the art and best practices in the European and Italian context, including the last provisions about digitalization in public procurement. The indicators were created through multiple revisions in agreement with civic monitoring experts to ensure transparency and data continuous accessibility by common citizens. Although the presented indicators are still theoretical, were designed to reduce long execution times and public funding waste, in addition to ensure greater compliance with expected project performance and quality. The indicators will be validated through future pilot case studies and included in the civic monitoring purposes of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan projects. The outcomes of the validation will support the definition of a civic monitoring approach that could be replicated in other international contexts. (c) 2023 American Society of Civil Engineers. Practical Applications: The paper presents a set of indicators exploitable by non-experts for civic monitoring of public procurement. It focuses on the construction sector, a key pillar of the global economy, which is most affected by several critical issues such as corruption. The monitoring of public procurement is key to ensure the efficient use of public resources and is facilitated by the digitalization of information and procurement procedures, which enable or make it easier for citizens to access, consult, and process data on public procurement. Thus, the indicators were identified with particular attention to digitalizing procedures in all stages of public procurement, aiming at guaranteeing data transparency and accessibility, as well as the shared management and traceability of information. They have been identified in the Italian context, but can be replicated in other ones, including international ones, with critical issues requiring indicators to monitor the correct, efficient, and transparent execution of public procurements. They will be used to monitor projects funded by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (adopted in 2021 as part of the Next Generation EU)
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
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