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Technological Capability and Absorptive Capacity Dynamics through Cluster Organizations, In: Sekliuckienė J., Susnienė R. (Eds). AIB-CEE 2019. Book of abstracts (pp. 127), 6th Academy of International Business Central Eastern European (AIB-CEE) chapter annual conference: „International business in the dynamic environment: changes in digitalization, innovation and entrepreneurship”, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, September 25-27 (eISBN 9786090216378)
PublicationThe purpose of the paper is to portrait how members of cluster organizations (COs) perceive the role of clusters in enabling them accumulation of technological capability significant for their innovation. The authors report the findings from the qualitative study based on analysis of four COs from the metal and the highly internationalized ICT industry that concerns the role of knowledge and other cluster benefits in technological...
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Towards Easy-to-Use Checkpointing of MPI Applications within CLUSTERIX.
PublicationW literaturze wymienia się wiele bibliotek/systemów zarówno poziomu jądra jak i użytkownika, które wspomagają zapisywanie i odtwarzanie stanu procesów. W odniesieniu do aplikacji równoległych, jest to jednak zadanie cały czas trudne. Praca prezentuje nasze podejście do zapisywania/odtwarzania stanu aplikacji MPI wspomagane przez programistę, które wykorzystane będzie w środowisku projektu CLUSTERIX tj. zintegrowanej grupie klastrów...
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Data Partitioning and Task Management in the Clustered Server Layer of the Volunteer-based Computation System
PublicationWhile the typical volunteer-based distributed computing system focus on the computing performance, the Comcute system was designed especially to keep alive in the emergency situations. This means that designers had to take into account not only performance, but the safety of calculations as well. Quadruple-layered architecture was proposed to separate the untrusted components from the core of the system. The main layer (W) consists...
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Selection of SOM parameters for the needs of clusterization of data obtained by interferometric methods
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Do clusters help companies to "go green"? Experience of Polish National Key Clusters
PublicationThis study aims to explore cluster activity in the field of green transformation, taking into account the green, low-carbon and circular economy. Our intention was to identify the main green practices used by cluster organizations, which we showed through the lens of the attributes of both the cluster and the cluster organization. Through our study, we sought to answer the question: what is the role of cluster organizations in...
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Theory of industrial clusters
PublicationW niniejszym rozdziale zostały przedstawione podstawy teoretyczne klastrów, a w szczególności stosowane definicje i klasyfikacje gron oraz determinanty ich rozwoju. Autorka wyjaśnia również zjawisko powstawania klastrów i przedstawia korzyści płynące ze współpracy w gronie. Obszerną część artykułu stanowi przegląd metod stosowanych w badaniach struktur klastrowych. Autorka zamieściła również charakterystyki wybranych regionów opartych...
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Process arrival pattern aware algorithms for acceleration of scatter and gather operations
PublicationImbalanced process arrival patterns (PAPs) are ubiquitous in many parallel and distributed systems, especially in HPC ones. The collective operations, e.g. in MPI, are designed for equal process arrival times (PATs), and are not optimized for deviations in their appearance. We propose eight new PAP-aware algorithms for the scatter and gather operations. They are binomial or linear tree adaptations introducing additional process...
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Network-assisted processing of advanced IoT applications: challenges and proof-of-concept application
PublicationRecent advances in the area of the Internet of Things shows that devices are usually resource-constrained. To enable advanced applications on these devices, it is necessary to enhance their performance by leveraging external computing resources available in the network. This work presents a study of computational platforms to increase the performance of these devices based on the Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) paradigm. The main...
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Challenges of branding and marketing of clusters
PublicationClusters have proved to be powerful engine s of economic development in the European Union. Clusters and their stakehol ders can derive many benefits fr om a strong cluster brand. However, they face numerous branding and marketing challenges. Specifics of clusters, such as multiple stakeholders, make it difficult to forge a strong brand identity. This paper addresses the need to develop a cluster specific approach to branding and...
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Barriers to inter-company cooperation in clusters
PublicationClusters have proved to be an important source of competitiveness for the economic development of regions within the European Union. One of the main goals of cluster development is to stimulate cooperation between companies in one or a few related sectors. The stakeholders of a cluster, as well as the local economy, can derive many benefits from such cooperation. However, there are numerous barriers, which make it difficult for...
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Categorization of Wikipedia articles with spectral clustering
PublicationAbstract. The article reports application of clustering algorithms for creating hierarchical groups withinWikipedia articles.We evaluate three spectral clustering algorithms based on datasets constructed with usage ofWikipedia categories. Selected algorithm has been implemented in the system that categorize Wikipedia search results in the fly.
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Categorization of Cloud Workload Types with Clustering
PublicationThe paper presents a new classification schema of IaaS cloud workloads types, based on the functional characteristics. We show the results of an experiment of automatic categorization performed with different benchmarks that represent particular workload types. Monitoring of resource utilization allowed us to construct workload models that can be processed with machine learning algorithms. The direct connection between the functional...
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Weighted Clustering for Bees Detection on Video Images
PublicationThis work describes a bee detection system to monitor bee colony conditions. The detection process on video images has been divided into 3 stages: determining the regions of interest (ROI) for a given frame, scanning the frame in ROI areas using the DNN-CNN classifier, in order to obtain a confidence of bee occurrence in each window in any position and any scale, and form one detection window from a cloud of windows provided by...
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The implementation of green transformation through clusters
PublicationThe paper addresses a poorly documented issue in the literature, namely the role of clusters in green transformation, including processes related to green, low-carbon, and circular economies. The purpose was to identify and understand the practices of clusters in this area. The adopted mixed research strategy consisted of both qualitative and quantitative research. Both research phases were conducted in a group of Polish Key National...
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Clustering Bathymetric Data for Electronic Navigational Charts
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Agent-Based Non-distributed and Distributed Clustering
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Clustering Context Items into User Trust Levels
PublicationAn innovative trust-based security model for Internet systems is proposed. The TCoRBAC model operates on user profiles built on the history of user with system interaction in conjunction with multi-dimensional context information. There is proposed a method of transforming the high number of possible context value variants into several user trust levels. The transformation implements Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering strategy....
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ELECTRON ATTACHMENT TO HETEROGENEOUS MOLECULAR CLUSTERS
PublicationHeterogeneous clusters are unique model species enabling studies of bulk and surface processes by vacuum restricted methods. This is of particular importance for the reactions of low-energy electrons which have extremely short penetration depth in bulk environments. This contribution overviews our recent experiments with low-energy electrons and clusters prepared by different techniques. First, the deposition of molecules on argon...
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Dissociation energies of protonated water clusters
PublicationRelative abundances of positively ionized water clusters formed in a low-pressure electrical discharge as function of reduced electric field were obtained by using drift cell and quadrupole mass spectrometer. It was noticed that some clusters say with n = 4 were more abundant than others, at comparable drift conditions. Dissociation energies have been derived from equilibrium conditions for relative clusters abundances. The Hartree-Fock...
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Dissociation pathways of protonated water clusters
PublicationRelative abundances of positively ionized water clusters formed in a low-pressure electrical discharge as function of reduced electric field were obtained by using drift cell and quadrupole mass spectrometer. It was noticed that some clusters say with n=4 were more abundant than others, at comparable drift conditions. Dissociation energies have been derived from equilibrium conditions for relative clusters abundances. The Hartree-Fock...
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Structure of Small Platinum Clusters Revised
PublicationW pracy opisano wyniki obliczeń metodą DFT struktury 2-15 atomowych klastrów platyny.
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Ontology clustering by directions algorithm to expand ontology queries
PublicationThis paper concerns formulating ontology queries. It describes existing languages in which ontologies can be queried. It focuses on languages which are intended to be easily understood by users who are willing to retrieve information from ontologies. Such a language can be, for example, a type of controlled natural language (CNL). In this paper a novel algorithm called Ontology Clustering by Directions is presented. The algorithm...
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Spectral Clustering Wikipedia Keyword-Based search Results
PublicationThe paper summarizes our research in the area of unsupervised categorization of Wikipedia articles. As a practical result of our research, we present an application of spectral clustering algorithm used for grouping Wikipedia search results. The main contribution of the paper is a representation method for Wikipedia articles that has been based on combination of words and links and used for categoriation of search results in this...
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K-means clustering for SAT-AIS data analysis
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Interactive Query Expansion with the Use of Clustering by Directions Algorithm
PublicationThis paper concerns Clustering by Directions algorithm. The algorithm introduces a novel approach to interactive query expansion. It is designed to support users of search engines in forming web search queries. When a user executes a query, the algorithm shows potential directions in which the search can be continued. This paper describes the algorithm and it presents an enhancement which reduces the computational complexity of...
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Information Retrieval with the Use of Music Clustering by Directions Algorithm
PublicationThis paper introduces the Music Clustering by Directions (MCBD) algorithm. The algorithm is designed to support users of query by humming systems in formulating queries. This kind of systems makes it possible to retrieve songs and tunes on the basis of a melody recorded by the user. The Music Clustering by Directions algorithm is a kind of an interactive query expansion method. On the basis of query, the algorithm provides suggestions...
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External Validation Measures for Nested Clustering of Text Documents
PublicationAbstract. This article handles the problem of validating the results of nested (as opposed to "flat") clusterings. It shows that standard external validation indices used for partitioning clustering validation, like Rand statistics, Hubert Γ statistic or F-measure are not applicable in nested clustering cases. Additionally to the work, where F-measure was adopted to hierarchical classification as hF-measure, here some methods to...
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Development and Research of the Text Messages Semantic Clustering Methodology
PublicationThe methodology of semantic clustering analysis of customer’s text-opinions collection is developed. The author's version of the mathematical models of formalization and practical realization of short textual messages semantic clustering procedure is proposed, based on the customer’s text-opinions collection Latent Semantic Analysis knowledge extracting method. An algorithm for semantic clustering of the text-opinions is developed,...
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A Clustering-Based Methodology for Selection of Fault Tolerance Techniques
PublicationDevelopment of dependable applications requires selection of appropriate fault tolerance techniques that balance efficiency in fault handling and resulting consequences, such as increased development cost or performance degradation. This paper describes an advisory system that recommends fault tolerance techniques considering specified development and runtime application attributes. In the selection process, we use the K-means...
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Collaborative development model and strategies of multi-energy industry clusters: Multi-indicators analysis affecting the development of coastal energy clusters
PublicationThe paper explores Coastal Energy-Based Industrial Clusters (EBICs) and their role in advancing energy efficiency and sustainability through collaborative innovation. Economic growth theory and energy sustainability have been introduced into industrial clusters to illustrate indicators that have a greater impact on the development of EBICs. This paper proposes an EBICs development model based on the Cobb-Douglas function, in which...
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Proximity and Innovation in Clusters: How Close, How Far?
PublicationThe concept of proximity, whilst attractive cognitively, is still a poorly explored area in management sciences. The earliest publications on proximity were published at the end of the twentieth century and the development of this concept was strongly influenced by The French School of Proximity (Kirat & Lung, 1999; Rallet & Torre, 1999; Torre & Gilly, 2000; Carrincazeaux et al., 2001; Torre & Rallet, 2005). However, the most influential...
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Proton transfer reactions for ionized water clusters
PublicationCalculations of formation energies of the ionized water clusters and energies of reactions between small (including less than eight water molecules) neutral and positively ionized water clusters are presented. Moreover, we discuss some reaction paths between neutral and positively charged dimers, trimers and tetramers and proton transfer reactions (PTR) between cyclic clusters and H3O+ ions which can appear in beam experiments...
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Photocatalytic activity of TiO2 loaded with metal clusters
PublicationTiO2 modyfikowano powierzchniowo klasterami metali: srebra, złota i platyny. Zbadano wpływ rodzaju i ilości wprowadzonej domieszki, oraz matrycy TiO2 na aktywność fotokatalityczną otrzymanych próbek. Fotoaktywność próbek badano w reakcji degradacji fenolu (Co = 0,21 mmol/dm3 ) w zakresie światła Vis lub UV. Najwyższą aktywność zaobserwowano dla fotokatalizatorów zawierających 2%Ag, 1%Au oraz 0,5%Pt. Po 60 min naświetlania światłem...
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Roadmap on dynamics of molecules and clusters in the gas phase
PublicationThis roadmap article highlights recent advances, challenges and future prospects in studies of the dynamics of molecules and clusters in the gas phase. It comprises nineteen contributions by scientists with leading expertise in complementary experimental and theoretical techniques to probe the dynamics on timescales spanning twenty orders of magnitudes, from attoseconds to minutes and beyond, and for systems ranging in complexity...
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0-step K-means for clustering Wikipedia search results
PublicationThis article describes an improvement for K-means algorithm and its application in the form of a system that clusters search results retrieved from Wikipedia. The proposed algorithm eliminates K-means isadvantages and allows one to create a cluster hierarchy. The main contributions of this paper include the ollowing: (1) The concept of an improved K-means algorithm and its application for hierarchical clustering....
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Innovation by proxy – clusters as ecosystems facilitating open innovation
PublicationOpen innovation is a concept, whose attributes can be perceived as naturally complementing the proximity-based offer of clusters. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential role of clusters as intermediaries of open innovation for cluster members. A literature review and an exploratory study were performed, involving in-depth interviews with experts in the field of innovation and clusters in Poland. This article...
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Configurations of H 3 + (H2)n clusters and their energies
PublicationThe H-3(+) ion plays an important role in low temperature astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. It is considered as the initiator of many ion-molecule chemistries. Also its clusters with H-2 are quite interesting. We study configurations of the H-3(+)(H-2)(n) clusters for n = 1 up to n = 12 as a simple test system. Total energies for these structures, with zero point vibration corrections have been calculated. Stabilization energies...
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Automatic Clustering of EEG-Based Data Associated with Brain Activity
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to present a system for automatic assigning electroencephalographic (EEG) signals to appropriate classes associated with brain activity. The EEG signals are acquired from a headset consisting of 14 electrodes placed on skull. Data gathered are first processed by the Independent Component Analysis algorithm to obtain estimates of signals generated by primary sources reflecting the activity of the brain....
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Molecular-dynamics simulation of clustering processes in sea-ice floes
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Wyszukiwanie informacji z wykorzystaniem algorytmu Ontology Clustering by Directions
PublicationArtykuł opisuje algorytm Ontology Clustering by Directions. Algorytm ten ma na celu wspieranie użytkowników w formułowaniu ontologicznych zapytań. Ontologiczne zapytania służą do wydobywania informacji sformułowanych za pomocą ontologii opisanych np. językiem OWL. Artykuł przedstawia rodzaje języków wykorzystywanych do formułowania ontologicznych zapytań. W szczególności opisuje języki, które mają być przyjazne użytkownikom. Na...
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Self–Organizing Map representation for clustering Wikipedia search results
PublicationThe article presents an approach to automated organization of textual data. The experiments have been performed on selected sub-set of Wikipedia. The Vector Space Model representation based on terms has been used to build groups of similar articles extracted from Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps with DBSCAN clustering. To warrant efficiency of the data processing, we performed linear dimensionality reduction of raw data using Principal...
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Self-Organizing Map representation for clustering Wikipedia search results
PublicationThe article presents an approach to automated organization of textual data. The experiments have been performed on selected sub-set of Wikipedia. The Vector Space Model representation based on terms has been used to build groups of similar articles extracted from Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps with DBSCAN clustering. To warrant efficiency of the data processing, we performed linear dimensionality reduction of raw data using Principal...
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Supporting the development of clusters in Poland - dillemas faced by public policy
PublicationClusters have proved to be an important source of competitiveness for the economic development of regions within the European Union. In recent years many countries in the EU and throughout the world have launched policies aimed at supporting the development of clusters. There are many examples of good practices in the field of cluster policy, but there is no single model that can be applied in all countries and regions. This paper...
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THE PROBLEM OF AIRFLOW AROUND BUILDINGS CLUSTERS IN DIFFERENT CONFIGURATIONS
PublicationIn the paper, the authors discuss the construction of a model of an exemplary urban layout. Numerical simulation has been performed by means of a commercial software Fluent using two different turbulence models: the popular k-ε realizable one, and the Reynolds Stress Model (RSM), which is still being developed. The former is a 2-equations model, while the latter – is a RSM model – that consists of 7 equations. The studies have...
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Water clusters in liquid organic matrices of different polarity
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Functionalization of electrode surfaces with monolayers of azocompounds and gold clusters.
PublicationWłaściwości monowarstw z azokoron na powierzchni złota były badane przy pomocy woltametrii i STM. Powierzchnia przypadająca na cząsteczkę została wyznaczona przy pomocy woltametrii i wynosi 0,65 nm kwadratowych. Wartość ta jest zgodna z wyznaczoną w oparciu o monowarstwę utworzoną na granicy powietrze-woda techniką Langmir-Blodgett. Tworzenie się klasterów złota i innych struktur obserwowano przy pomocy STM w przypadku gdy złota...
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Study of Icosahedral Clusters in Close-packed Simple Liquids
PublicationThe local structure of liquid copper was determined using Steinhardt order parameters, with particular attention paid to icosahedral clusters. The positions of atoms were obtained from three sets of molecular dynamics simulations, with the forces obtained from: the Sutton-Chen (SC) potential, the Naval Research Laboratory total energy tight-binding (NRL-TB) method and the divide-and-conquer learn-on-the-fly (DCLOTF) method, respectively....
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Breast Cancer Heterogeneity Investigation: Multiple k-Means Clustering Approach
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An Approach for Journal Summarization Using Clustering Based Micro-Summary Generation
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Pre-selection and assessment of green organic solvents by clustering chemometric tools
PublicationThe study presents the result of the application of chemometric tools for selection of physicochemical parameters of solvents for predicting missing variables – bioconcentration factors, water-octanol and octanol-air partitioning constants. EPI Suite software was successfully applied to predict missing values for solvents commonly considered as “green”. Values for logBCF, logKOW and logKOA were modelled for 43 rather nonpolar solvents...