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Come incrementare gli asset logistici attraverso la tecnologia Rfid
No full textIl mercato dell’identificazione in radiofrequenza (RFID) si sta avviando ad una profonda transizione che migliorerà la gestione degli asset logistici. Da semplici progetti pilota il mercato è stato espanso per realizzare vere e proprie sperimentazioni. Anche il focus di queste iniziative è cambiato: inizialmente indirizzata dagli obblighi di legge, come è accaduto in Italia soprattutto nel settore agroalimentare e farmaceutico, la tracciabilità in radiofrequenza è divenuta oggi un modo effettivo per garantire risparmi consistenti nella gestione degli asset logistici. La tecnologia RFID è una tecnologia innovativa che si basa sulla radiofrequenza per l’identificazione automatica degli oggetti con etichette intelligenti dotate di chip (smart tags) che si attivano senza necessità di alcun contatto fisico o visivo le quali operano senza necessità di alimentazione. La tecnologia RFID si basa sulla capacità dei “tag”, di immagazzinare e aggiornare i dati e sulla loro capacità di rispondere all’interrogazione a distanza da parte di appositi apparati elettronici. La tecnologia RFID è finalizzata al miglioramento della qualità nei processi di movimentazione e spedizione e alla minimizzazione delle discrepanze inventariali attraverso un sistema di tracciabilità completamente automatizzato. L’adozione dell’RFID consente di riprogettare le logiche di movimentazione e controllo dei materiali e dei prodotti con l’obiettivo di razionalizzare le attività operative, minimizzare gli errori e soddisfare al massimo le esigenze dei clienti
Creative Industries and Big Data. A Business Model for Service Innovation
No full textCreative Industries have largely contributed to employment, GDP
growth and social cohesion, even during recent economic crises. Despite their
relevance, there is a lack for monitoring the impacts, especially for new technologies
involved into their business. The paper aims to appraise it when specifically
related to the use of Big Data. It evaluates the considerable economic benefit on
creative business performance linked to exploiting vast new flows of information.
A multi-criteria methodology for assessing these effects on Creative Industries,
and a model for implementing business performance through collaborative and
virtual value chains are presented. The model shows positive spillovers resulting
from the collaboration among Digital Creative Industries usually in the fields of
innovation, technology and intellectual property benefitting from Big Data applications,
distinguishing a macro from a microeconomic level of effectiveness, since transforming data into captured value for the firms, despite their size and
volume capacity, increases business performance
Space debris e sostenibilità delle attività spaziali
No full textIl problema dei detriti spaziali (space debris) derivanti dall’esplorazione e dall’utilizzo umano dello spazio extra-atmosferico sta diventando sempre più attuale. Dal lancio del primo satellite artificiale, avvenuto nel 1957, le attività spaziali si sono evolute in maniera frenetica e a ritmi inarrestabili. Se queste attività da un lato hanno favorito il progresso tecnico-scientifico, l’innovazione e la competitività industriale e un maggiore benessere per la comunità; d’altro l’uomo ha, purtroppo, circondato la Terra di una nube di detriti spaziali. I rischi ambientali insiti in questi oggetti vaganti si manifestano sia nello spazio, sia sul nostro pianeta. Ai fini di consentire al lettore di comprendere meglio questa tematica, forniamo una panoramica degli strumenti di osservazione e di tracciamento utilizzati dai ricercatori utili a capire le problematiche connesse all’inquinamento spaziale. Inoltre, analizziamo le diverse misure tecniche di mitigazione adottate oggi dagli Stati per identificare la responsabilità per i danni causati dal debris e le misure per contenere la produzione di detriti spaziali
Collective Awareness Platform for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS). Understanding them and Analysing their Impacts
No full textThe paper describes the Collective Awareness Platform for Sustainability and Social Innovation domain (CAPS) by using an “inside” perspective, as it is based on the research work of a CAPS project entitled IA4SI - Impact Assessment for Social Innovation.
The paper first defines Digital Social Innovation as the technological enabled version of Social Innovation and describes CAPS projects consequently.
Then, it presents the framework of the quanti-qualitative methodology developed by IA4SI for analysing the impact of CAPS projects. It considers four main impacts: social, economic, political and environmental. Each aspect is then articulated in several sub-categories required in order to map a multidimensional and internally diversified domain such as CAPS
A Methodology for the Impact Assessment of a g-Cloud Strategy for the Italian Ministry of the Economic Development
No full textThe paper has the objective to provide a methodology for the socio-economic, technological and environmental impact assessment of a Cloud Computing strategy for the Italian Ministry of the Economic Development and more specific at the service of the Department for Communications. In order to develop a detailed and tailored model for implementing the g-Cloud strategy, we analyse the current services and functions performed by the Department for Communications of the Italian Ministry of the Economic Development, showing the current ways of managing information flows within and outside the ad-ministration. Starting from the available background analysis on the current state of the art of the adoption of g-Cloud services in Europe and USA, we pro-vide assumptions and hypotheses for the definition of the g-Cloud Strategy. We then compare the requirements provided by the General Directorates of the Department for Communications of the Italian Ministry of the Economic Development in order to validate the hypotheses previously defined. By reviewing the approaches for the impact assessment available from literature review, we de-fine the best effective methodology for assessing the potential impacts of g-Cloud strategies. The methodology considers four areas of impact: economic, social, legal and environmental impacts. For each area of impact we identify specific indicators for the assessment of efficiency and effectiveness of Cloud Computing initiatives in the Italian PA that have been validated by a set of Cloud Computing experts
The Economic and Legal Perspectives of Cloud Computing in Italian Public Administration and a Roadmap to the Adoption of g-Cloud in Italy
No full textCloud computing has reached a high level of adoption worldwide. In Italy, the adoption of Cloud Computing for the Public Administration is still far from the European and American best practices due to infrastructural, econom-ic, legal and organisational culture reasons. The Italian Public Administration is facing enormous challenges in order to build a long term strategy capable of de-livering the benefits required from the government and citizens, evaluating and reducing the potential regulatory, economic and environmental risks. The new emerging paradigm of the Public Administration, that many authors called as “g-Cloud”, should be implemented and managed through a common and coher-ent strategy. Starting from a comparative analysis of the g-Cloud state of the art in Europe and in America, the objective of the paper is to provide a roadmap showing the future steps needed for the adoption of g-Cloud in Italy, by analyz-ing the main economic and legal perspectives of Cloud Computing for the Ital-ian Government and Public Administration
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
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