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Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications
No full textThis volume contains papers presented at the 5th International Conference on
Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications (MOBILWARE),
held during November 13–14, 2012, in Berlin, Germany. The advances
in wireless communication technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices
have enabled the realization of intelligent environments for people and machines
to communicate with each other, interact with information processing devices,
and receive a wide range of mobile wireless services through various types of networks
and systems everywhere, anytime. A key enabler of these pervasive and
ubiquitous connectivity environments is the advancement of software technology
in various communication sectors, ranging from communication middleware and
operating systems to networking protocols and applications. MOBILWARE is
dedicated to addressing emerging topics and challenges in various mobile wireless
software-related areas. The scope of the conference includes the design, implementation,
deployment, and evaluation of middleware, operating systems, and
applications for computing and communications in mobile wireless systems.
MOBILWARE 2012 was the fifth edition of this conference, and it was made
possible thanks to the organization/endorsement of the European Alliance of
Innovation (EAI), the sponsorship of Create-Net, and most importantly the hard
work of the TPC members. The theme of this year’s Mobilware conference was:
“Mobile Middleware for M2M Interaction and Smart City Applications.”
Similar to the last successful editions, we received high-quality submissions
(32 this year), reflecting the international interest for the conference topics. After
a thorough review process, we finalized an excellent technical program including
18 regular papers from 11 countries and four continents. These papers have been
grouped into five technical sessions on:
– Internet of Things and Mobile Sensing
– Mobile Middleware Platforms
– Mobile Networks
– System Support for Mobile Applications
– Context Awareness
We want to express our sincere gratitude to all the authors who submitted their
papers to this conference and to all the TPC members whose diligent work was
crucial for the finalization of this high-quality final technical program.
Additionally, the technical program had two excellent keynote speeches: “Experimentation
for the Internet of Things,” and “Universities for Future Internet
(UNIFI).” The first was given by Mesut G ̈unes, Freie Universit ̈at Berlin. The second,
covering insights into academic mobile/NGN testbed deployments in Chile,
Thailand, and Vietnam, was given by three speakers: Alfonso Ehijo, Universidad
de Chile; Nguyen Huu Thanh, Hanoi University of Science and Technology;
and Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn, Department of Electrical Engineering, Chulalongkorn
University.
The technical program also includes a “Panel on Mobile Apps and IT for
Energy Efficiency,” organized by Klaus David, University of Kassel, Germany.
We thank the keynote speakers and the panelists for contributing to the
quality and the success of this event.
Finally, we would like to thank Paolo Bellavista and Thomas Magedanz, the
General Co-chairs, for their constant motivation and support, as well as Carlo
Giannelli, the Publication and Web Chair, for helping in all the organizational
matters. In addition, we would like to thank the whole EAI team for their constant
support this event happen.
We hope you enjoy the proceedings and gain a snapshot of the state of the
art in mobile wireless middleware, operating systems, and applications
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
Vietnam Veterans Oral History Excerpt - David H. Hansen
No full textThis audio clip contains an excerpt from an oral interview with David Hansen, which was conducted as part of the South Dakota Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project in 1986. The project compiled 33 interviews on various topics relating to the Vietnam War, including: basic training, the trip to Vietnam, experiences in the field, helicopter and aircraft stories, support groups, the Vietnamese, and their general thoughts on the war and the country (see Vietnam Veterans Oral History Collection, 96-007). All interviews were conducted by Thomas Magedanz on behalf of the Vietnam Era Veterans Association.
Chief Warrant Officer-2 David H. Hansen grew up in South Dakota. He was sent to Vietnam in 1969 where he served with the 101st Airborne Division based in Phu Bai and LZ Sally. Hansen flew Huey helicopters, and earned the Bronze Star, Air Medal, Army Commendation Medal, and Purple Heart among other campaign and service medals. He returned to the United States in 1970. The excerpt is 6 minutes 8 seconds in duration
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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