Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes
Report: COST STSM TD1210 20984; 7th to 18th October 2014 Short-term mission 20984 took place as planned. At the outset we began examining large financial data sets from two complementary perspectives. The first sought to examine the statistical nature of the Wells Wilder index and the associated Relative Strength Index…
Report on the KNOWeSCAPE workshop “Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR)” at Digital Libraries 2014 The workshop “Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR)” was hold at the Digital Libraries 2014 in London, September 11, 2014. Knowledge maps are promising tools for visualizing the structure of large-scale information spaces, but still…
This is an excerpt from the report on the workshop e-Governement and e-Knowledge – wider societal use of knowledge maps held in Sevilla, Spain, on 16-18 September, 2014. The Workshop on eGovernement and eKnowledge – wider societal use of knowledge maps held in Sevilla, Spain on Sept. 16-18, 2014 was…
The second annual meeting of KnowEscape will take place at Piraeus Bank Conference Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece from Monday 24 November until Wednesday 26 November, 2014. A management committee meeting will also be held within this period. We proudly announce as keynote speakers of the event Prof. Elena Dimitrova, Clemson University…
The definition of what is a “topic” in science represents a baseline for a lot of follow-up questions such as how to define research diversity, how to measure interdisciplinary, or how to identify breakthrough research. As reported elsewhere in Berlin since six years Jochen Gläser and colleagues organize a small-scale…
The DERI institute of the National University of Ireland, in Galway, is one of the biggest Semantic Web groups around. Their research spans across most Semantic Web areas, and their project are quite practical in nature: solving real-world problems involving the Semantic Web. My choice to visit DERI was a…
“SKIN 3: Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Policy – Third Workshop on the agent-based SKIN Model” 2014 Annual Conference of the EA European Academy and WG 2 Working group meeting of KnoweScape The workshop Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Policy – a WG 2 event, and…
We are pleased to announce the opening of calls for paper for the upcoming halfday workshop on Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR), to be held as part of the International Conference on Digital Libraries 2014 – ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2014) and International Conference on Theory…
Report on the visit of Dr. Marija Mitrović to Institute Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia, on May 12-23, 2014 based on grant STSM-TD1210-16719 Title of STSM: Towards Understanding Popularity of Science Topics: Analysis of Data from Knowledge Dissemination Portals by Bipartite Networks Modeling and Simulations It was very nice to come…
Wikipedia network data I have visited Amsterdam and den Haag during my STSM from 20.05.2014 to 24.05.2014. During the visit to DANS institute in den Haag I have discussed the issues with depositing the dataset containing Wikipedia network data in DANS archive with Emilie Kraaikamp. Thanks to the discussion, we…