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Toward a collaborative vocabulary management system
No full textIn the age of knowledge-based economy, the always-growing necessity of an effective means to share concepts and their representation frequently leads to the development of domain specific vocabularies. However, vocabu-laries may fail to capture the real common understanding of a community, mostly because of its low involve-ment in the development phase. The paper gives a first set of considerations about a collaborative approach to vocabulary development and outlines the main issues that such approach would imply. Finally some collabora-tion use cases are proposed for solving some integrity issues that collaboration implicitly entails
Metadata for a reusable business vocabulary element
No full textThe aim of this paper is to present the structure and the metadata needed to construct a business vocabulary element. The business vocabulary element could be considered as the building block of a Domain Specific Language (DSL) dictionary. For creating the desired reusable vocabulary element a set of metadata is used to ensure collective synthesis, flexible categorization, and the integrity with other systems as business rules based ones. One of the most important parts is finding those who can define a vocabulary element by a histogram density processing. Creating a vocabulary element with basic metadata and some hints about who can define it better than the others, is a first step for the creation of a vocabulary element that is well defined, clear, reusable, and maintainable
Building a Process-Based Organization: the Design Roadmap at Superjet International
No full textThe benefits of managing companies through a process-based approach are well recognized in the business literature
and in many corporate contexts. However, there is a limited discussion on how to practically design and develop an
organization based on processes. This paper aims to address this relative ‘gap’ in the literature by presenting the case
of a recent international joint venture in the regional jet industry. In the following paper, we present a story of
organization design based on the identification and description of the core process model of the company, with a
specific focus on customer service activities. Based on interviews and direct observation at the field site, this paper
shows the main steps undertaken to define the process taxonomy levels and to describe process elements, along with a
discussion of the relationships with the business model components of the company. The paper provides practical
value as it provides practical insights relating to the start-up of a new company driven by a process-based approach
SuperJet International case study: a business network start-up in the aeronautics industry.
No full textThis chapter presents the SuperJet International case study, a start-up in the aeronautics industry characterized by a process-oriented approach and a complex and as yet evolving network of partnerships and collaborations. The chapter aims to describe the key points of the start-up process, highlighting common factors and differences compared to the TEKNE Methodology of Change, with particular reference to the second and third phase, namely, the design and deployment of new techno-organizational systems. The SuperJet International startup is presented as a case study where strategic and organizational aspects have been jointly conceived from a network-driven perspective. The chapter compares some of the guidelines of the TEKNE Methodology of Change with experiences and actual practices deriving from interviews with key players in SJI’s start-up process
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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