Forcoa.NET: An interactive tool for exploring the significance of authorship networks in DBLP data

Author

Horak, Zdenek ; Kudelka, Milos ; Snasel, Vaclav ; Abraham, Ajith ; Rezankova, Hana

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., VSB - Tech. Univ. of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

fYear

2011

fDate

19-21 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

261

Lastpage

266

Abstract

This paper presents an online analysis tool called Forcoa.NET, which is built over the DBLP dataset of publications from the field of computer science. The developed tool is focused on the analysis and visualization of the co-authorship relationship based on the intensity and topic of joint publications. The visualization of co-authorship networks allows to describe the author and his/her current surroundings while still incorporating the historical aspect. The analysis is based on using the forgetting function to hold the information relevant to the selected date. After this analysis, we are capable of computing several measures, which can describe different aspects of user behaviour from the point of view of scientific social network.

Keywords

data analysis; data visualisation; publishing; social networking (online); user interfaces; DBLP publication dataset; Forcoa.NET tool; co-authorship network; computer science; data analysis; data visualization; digital bibliography and library project; forgetting function; scientific social network; user behaviour; Computer architecture; Computer science; Data visualization; Histograms; Servers; Social network services; Stability analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Salamanca

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1132-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CASON.2011.6085955

Filename

6085955