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Addressing product-service manufacturing in globalised markets: an industrial case study
Get PDFProduct-service (P-S) represents an interesting business trend for manufacturing enterprises to push innovation since it allows increasing the value perceived by the customers and better satisfying their needs over time by adding a wide range of services to a physical product. In this context understanding how to configure the global design and production network in order to realize a P-S solution and properly reconfigure the processes against rapidly changing of P-S requirements is a complex problem area. For this purpose new methods are necessary to deal with the complex, dynamic and transient nature of product- services and create a dynamic global network able to effectively manage the flexible design and production requirements demanded by the increasing business need for rapid P-S change. The research presents an industrial case study focusing on a manufacturing company facing the configuration of its production network in order to provide a new P-S idea and innovate its actual product portfolio. In particular, the study defines a methodology to elicit the P-S network configuration requirements and support the P-S introduction in a traditional manufacturing scenario. By using such a method the company is able to define a solution to plan and configure the required network in case of P-S production and organize the partners and the interactions among them
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
Smart token for the Campus using Blockchain
Get PDFThis project was born from the idea of creating a complete and functional Smart Campus on the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (from now on NTUST). The NTUST, one of the most excellence universities not only in Taipei City, but also all around Taiwan, has a large reputation in all types of engineering. Along the years, the university has been able to adapt to new technologies and new trends. In this new world wide environment of Internet of Things (IoT), the university wants to lead an interdepartmental project to create a SMART CAMPUS as functional and effective as possible. According to this objective, between the writer and Professor Shuo-Yan Chou the idea of implementing a micro-economy system based in new technologies such as blockchain was thought as a revolutionary further step to develop in the project
Smart token for the Campus using Blockchain
Get PDFThis project was born from the idea of creating a complete and functional Smart Campus on the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (from now on NTUST). The NTUST, one of the most excellence universities not only in Taipei City, but also all around Taiwan, has a large reputation in all types of engineering. Along the years, the university has been able to adapt to new technologies and new trends. In this new world wide environment of Internet of Things (IoT), the university wants to lead an interdepartmental project to create a SMART CAMPUS as functional and effective as possible. According to this objective, between the writer and Professor Shuo-Yan Chou the idea of implementing a micro-economy system based in new technologies such as blockchain was thought as a revolutionary further step to develop in the project
Smart token for the Campus using Blockchain
No full textThis project was born from the idea of creating a complete and functional Smart Campus on the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (from now on NTUST). The NTUST, one of the most excellence universities not only in Taipei City, but also all around Taiwan, has a large reputation in all types of engineering. Along the years, the university has been able to adapt to new technologies and new trends. In this new world wide environment of Internet of Things (IoT), the university wants to lead an interdepartmental project to create a SMART CAMPUS as functional and effective as possible. According to this objective, between the writer and Professor Shuo-Yan Chou the idea of implementing a micro-economy system based in new technologies such as blockchain was thought as a revolutionary further step to develop in the project
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