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Understanding Data-Driven Product Service System characteristics: a conceptual framework for manufacturing applications
No full textThe explosion of digital technologies and data analytics capabilities are leading companies to rethink they offers and expand more than ever their business into the service domain. Specifically, considering manufacturers, the emerging possibility to connect products and create IoT architectures at the customer side, enable them to retrieve data flows during the products’ lifecycle. Analyze those data opened opportunities to obtain information to use intra-organization and at the same time to enhance already existing service or to develop new ones. Even the potential of data availability in this context is recognized in the literature, further work is still needed, especially defining how these new data-driven offers should be engineered and structured. In this view, this study provides a comprehensive interpretation on the general key components and characteristics of those services, defined as Data-Driven Product Service Systems (DDPSS), aiming at supporting the comprehension of specific principles and consequently the systematic creation of DDPSS. Indeed, limited research is devoted to the definition of the unique characteristics of those services and common agreement is still missing. The paper developed a two-hierarchical conceptual framework describing DDPSS typologies is proposed. The framework value is twofold: first it categories and harmonizes service typologies into a structured model and second, it can be used as a support tool during the service design phase, since it can inspire and guide service development. In the end, the paper also presents an explorative application of the conceptual framework within a different manufacturing company. The applications show both the descriptive and the prescriptive nature of the model; indeed, it is used to analyses the current position and to propose new trajectories for the companies’ service offering
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
From data to value: conceptualising data-driven product service system
No full textWith the rise of digital technologies, the possibility to retrieve a large amount of data from connected sources can become a key source of value creation in the context of service provision. Nevertheless, product service offerings that can be built on data retrieved from connected products, that we will call data-driven product service system, remains poorly covered from both the academic and the practitioners’ perspectives. Notably, a univocal definition of the characteristics of data-driven product service system is still missing. Therefore, this paper represents a first attempt in the systematic definition of data-driven services types and their features as a fundamental step to support their understanding and development. To accomplish this aim, the paper proposes a holistic view of data-driven product service system characteristics, employing a two-level hierarchical conceptual framework for business to business applications. The framework is constructed with a theory-building approach involving multiple industrial companies. The paper eventually reports a case study to demonstrate the applicability of the framework
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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