Modern bibliographic databases provide the basis for scientific research and its evaluation. While their content and structure differ substantially, there exist only informal notions on their reliability. Here we compare the topological consistency of citation networks extracted from six popular bibliographic databases including Web of Science, CiteSeer and arXiv.org. The networks are assessed through a rich set of local and global graph statistics. We first reveal statistically significant inconsistencies between some of the databases with respect to individual statistics. For example, the introduced field bow-tie decomposition of DBLP Computer Science Bibliography substantially differs from the rest due to the coverage of the database, while the citation information within arXiv.org is the most exhaustive. Finally, we compare the databases over multiple graph statistics using the critical difference diagram. The citation topology of DBLP Computer Science Bibliography is the least consistent with the rest, while, not surprisingly, Web of Science is significantly more reliable from the perspective of consistency. This work can serve either as a reference for scholars in bibliometrics and scientometrics or a scientific evaluation guideline for governments and research agencies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Besiede this top-ranking publication the research program has another publication in rank A'': POTOČNIK, Martin, JURIČ, Matjaž B.. Towards complex event aware services as part of SOA. IEEE transactions on services computing, ISSN 1939-1374, 2014, vol. 7, no. 3, str. 486-500, ilustr. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6461877, doi: 10.1109/TSC.2013.7. [COBISS.SI-ID 9754196], [JCR, SNIP, WoS do 27. 10. 2014: kategorija: 1A1 (Z, A'', A', A1/2);
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This is a paper in rank A', so it is a quality research publication: We present several measures that can be used in de novo computational design of biological systems with information processing capabilities. Their main purpose is to objectively evaluate the behavior and identify the biological information processing structures with the best dynamical properties. They can be used to define constraints that allow one to simplify the design of more complex biological systems. These measures can be applied to existent computational design approaches in synthetic biology, i.e., rational and automatic design approaches. We demonstrate their use on a) the computational models of several basic information processing structures implemented with gene regulatory networks and b) on a modular design of a synchronous toggle switch.
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This is a paper in rank A', so it is a quality research publication: Trust is not only one key ingredient of prosperous organizations and societies, but also an essential factor in decision-making processes. And when it comes to trust, the latest advances in computing sciences area are increasingly supporting the related processes by deployment of so-called trust management systems. As there seems to be no "Swiss-army knife" like methodology for trust management, it is reasonable to assume that not only one, but a few of them will be deployed in the future, depending on their basic principles of functioning,purposes and contexts of use. Therefore there still exists a gap in this area with unaddressed issues where humans (or humans-like agents) would be in focus. Quality Assessment Dynamics, QAD, which is presented in this paper, is taking these issues into account. It is based on operands and operators that model human ways of reasoning as described in many natural languages. Further, it is a formal system and therefore enabled for deployment in computing environments. This way QAD complements existing trust management methods and provides additional means for decision making through deployment in simulations and in trust management engines.
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This is a paper in rank A', so it is a quality research publication: Temperature monitoring, shelf-life visibility and Least Shelf-life First Out (LSFO) stock strategy are important contents in perishable food cold chain logistics for both cold chain managers and workers in order to reduce quality and economic losses. This paper illustrates a wireless sensor network (WSN) based integrated Cold Chain Shelf Life Decision Support System (C2SLDS) designed for perishable food product cold chain management. The system is implemented based on the WSN and time temperature indicator (TTI) features. Compared with traditional cold chain management methods used before, the C2SLDS not only bridges the information gap which exists between different cold chain phase enterprises and provide a seamless information flow along the whole chain but also enables cold chain enterprises to predict perishable food's shelf-life and helps make a smart LSFO strategy to reduce the quality and economic loss. System test and evaluation shows that the infield radio transmission is reliable and the whole system meets most of the users' requirements raised in system analysis.
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The paper focuses on the newness characteristic of realized innovations and their adoption in tourism firms. For that purpose it investigates three research problems: (i) measurement of newness level and adoption of tourism innovations; (ii) definition of tourism innovations taxonomy (needed for the measurement); and (iii) statistical analysis of innovations’ adoption in tourism destinations (result of the measurement). The main aim of the research was to develop and validate the tool used for such measurements. The tool should help researchers and managers in tracking and benchmarking how innovative tourism firms are. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beside this quality publication in rank A' the research program has also the following publication in the same rank: DEMŠAR, Jure, LEBAR BAJEC, Iztok. Simulated predator attacks on flocks : a comparison of tactics. Artificial life, ISSN 1064-5462, 2014, vol. 20, no. 3, str. 343-359, ilustr. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ARTL_a_00135#.U89tD7dWG70. [COBISS.SI-ID 10683476], [JCR, SNIP, WoS do 3. 9. 2014: kategorija: 1A1 (Z, A', A1/2); PETRONI, Mattia, ZIMIC, Nikolaj, MRAZ, Miha, MOŠKON, Miha. Stochastic simulation algorithm for gene regulatory networks with multiple binding sites. Journal of computational biology, ISSN 1557-8666. [Online ed.], 2014, vol. , no. , str. 1-9, ilustr. http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cmb.2014.0064, doi: 10.1089/cmb.2014.0064. [COBISS.SI-ID 10671956], [JCR, SNIP] kategorija: 1A1 (Z, A', A1/2); HERTIŠ, Matej, JURIČ, Matjaž B.. An empirical analysis of business process execution language usage. IEEE transactions on software engineering, ISSN 0098-5589. [Print ed.], Aug. 2014, vol. 40, no. 8, str. 738-757, graf. prikazi. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6812231. [COBISS.SI-ID 10747732], kategorija: 1A1 (Z, A', A1/2). ŽITNIK, Slavko, ŠUBELJ, Lovro, BAJEC, Marko. SkipCor : skip-mention coreference resolution using linear-chain conditional random fields. PloS one, ISSN 1932-6203, Jun. 2014, vol. 9, no. 6, str. 1-14, ilustr. http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0100101&representation=PDF, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100101. [COBISS.SI-ID 10645844], kategorija: 1A1 (Z, A', A1/2);
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