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X-OAR: orchestration of access resources for extended reality educational applications
No full textExtended reality offers unprecedented learning and training occasions, and unique challenges related not only to throughput and delay, but also to the characteristic spatial concentration of trainees. We have developed an algorithm for eXtended reality oriented Orchestration of Access Resources (X-OAR) grounding on next generation network technologies. X-OAR is designed to efficiently allocate edge computing facilities and cooperatively scheduled radio access network resources for extended reality applications. Building on the 3GPP guidelines on quality of experience in XR services, X-OAR meets the stringent XR delay requirements by leveraging edge and radio resources and employing cooperative scheduling within the radio access network. We introduce a graph model of the X-OAR optimization problem, and we present the X-OAR greedy algorithm, that reduces the orchestration complexity and the dependency on user subscription information. Experimental results show that X-OAR, with its cooperative scheduling technique, outperforms state-of-the-art competitors in terms of XR quality of experience. X-OAR paves the way for further studies extending the system orchestration to the application layer and the related resource charging policy
Glancing at extended reality: an empirical model of 3D animated XR data traffic
No full textSeveral elements in the design of next generation networks, such as user profiling and network slicing, are based on precise models of the traffic load. In this context, recent research has investigated various video traffic classes, while traffic related to extended reality (XR) services remains unexplored. In this paper, we propose an original empirical model of 3D animated XR data, derived by encoding real point clouds with a standard compliant codec. Our proposed approach spans different temporal scales, from minutes to milliseconds aiming to measure different phenomena. Indeed, we firstly analyze the packet size distribution at the lower time scale, and we identify that it is well approximated by heavy tailed Gamma distribution. Then, we demonstrate how this finding can be integrated to model phenomena at the application layer time scale. Specifically, we show how a general semi-hidden Markov model can be used to capture the dynamics of the service session over time as well as the users behaviours. We demonstrate the use of the model by different examples. Taken together, our model results able to capture fine and coarse grained behaviour in 3D XR traffic
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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