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MetaScience: An Holistic Approach for Research Modeling

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Conceptual Modeling (ER 2016)

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Abstract

Conferences have become primary sources of dissemination in computer science research, in particular, in the software engineering and database fields. Assessing the quality, scope and community of conferences is therefore crucial for any researcher. However, digital libraries and online bibliographic services offer little help on this, thus providing only basic metrics. Researchers are instead forced to resort to the tedious task of manually browsing different sources (e.g., DBLP, Google Scholar or conference sites) to gather relevant information about a given venue. In this paper we propose a conceptual schema providing a holistic view of conference-related information (e.g., authors, papers, committees and topics). This schema is automatically and incrementally populated with data available online. We show how this schema can be used as a single information source for a variety of complex queries and metrics to characterize the ER conference. Our approach has been implemented and made available online.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    DBLP is a popular online reference for open bibliographic information in computer science with over 3M publication records.

  2. 2.

    CORE (http://www.core.edu.au/index.php/conference-portal) provides assessment of conferences in computing disciplines according to a mix of indicators such as citation and acceptance rates.

  3. 3.

    Dumps of the DBLP database are released periodically at http://dblp.l3s.de.

  4. 4.

    http://dblp.uni-trier.de.

  5. 5.

    The Levenshtein distance represents the minimum number of single-character changes (i.e. insertions, deletions or substitutions) required to change one word into the other.

  6. 6.

    The queries to calculate the metrics for each dimension are available at the tool website.

  7. 7.

    https://github.com/SOM-Research/metaScience.

  8. 8.

    http://som-research.uoc.edu/tools/metaScience.

  9. 9.

    http://valutazione.unibas.it/cs-conference-rating.

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  1. AtlanMod Team, Inria, Mines Nantes, LINA, Nantes, France

    Valerio Cosentino

  2. UOC, Barcelona, Spain

    Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo & Jordi Cabot

  3. ICREA, Barcelona, Spain

    Jordi Cabot

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  1. CEDRIC-CNAM & ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise, France

    Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau

  2. Kyoto University , Kyoto, Japan

    Katsumi Tanaka

  3. Drexel University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Il-Yeol Song

  4. Nagoya University , Nagoya, Japan

    Shuichiro Yamamoto

  5. Tokyo Institute of Technology , Tokyo, Japan

    Motoshi Saeki

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Cosentino, V., Cánovas Izquierdo, J.L., Cabot, J. (2016). MetaScience: An Holistic Approach for Research Modeling. In: Comyn-Wattiau, I., Tanaka, K., Song, IY., Yamamoto, S., Saeki, M. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9974. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46397-1_28

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