There are several metrics that are very useful to analyze and to design networks. These metrics, including the spectral-based ones, can be used to retrieve topological properties from the network. We observed that if one applies the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) over the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix, it is possible to observe different patterns in the DFT depending on some properties ...

Opportunistic Mobile Social Network (MSN) is a kind of Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) in which nodes are mobile with social characteristics. Users in such network carry data, move and forward it to others for information dissemination. To enable efficient data routing in opportunistic MSNs, the social metrics of users, such as mobility pattern, social centrality, community and etc. are leveraged ...

I describe a simple modification which can be applied to any citation count-based index (e.g. Hirsch’s h-index) quantifying a researcher’s publication output. The key idea behind the proposed approach is that the merit for the citations of a paper should be distributed amongst its authors according to their relative contributions. In addition to producing inherently fairer metrics I show that t...

Patient safety programs require meaningful metrics. Dominant frameworks are based on two safety metrics: one that seeks to identify, measure, and eliminate error and one that seeks to identify, measure, and eliminate injuries. However, non-health care safety programs suggest a third framework, hazardor risk-based measurement. Error measurement has many limitations, including the issues of error...

OBJECTIVE Cumulative data suggest that central sensitization may contribute to pain in osteoarthritis (OA) and present with symptoms typically associated with neuropathic pain (NP). We evaluated the responses from focus group participants on the knee OA pain experience for pain descriptions that suggest NP. METHODS Focus group transcripts were analyzed by 2 independent assessors for unprompte...

Plagiarism in programming courses is a pervasive and frustrating problem that undermines the educational process. Defining plagiarism is difficult because of the fuzzy boundary between allowable peer-peer collaboration and plagiarism. Pursuing suspected plagiarism has attendant emotional and legal risks to the student and teacher, with the teacher bearing the burden of proof. In this paper we p...

The purpose of this study was to discover such a way to use product metrics in agile software development that provides benefits to all affected stakeholders, including both general guidelines and detailed recommendations. The research was based on a literature study, with assessment and aggregation of the identified ideas. It was found that no such previous research exists. The related literat...