A Reflection on the Structure and Process of the Web of Data (2009)
The Web community has introduced a set of standards and technologies for representing, querying, and manipulating a globally distributed data structure known as the Web of Data. The proponents of the...
Revisiting the Age of Enlightenment from a collective decision making systems perspective (2009)
Marko A. Rodriguez; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Jennifer H. Watkins; Los Alamos National Laboratory
The ideals of the eighteenth century's Age of Enlightenment are the foundation of modern democracies. The era was characterized by thinkers who promoted progressive social reforms that opposed the...
Interpretations of the Web of Data (2009)
The emerging Web of Data utilizes the web infrastructure to represent and interrelate data. The foundational standards of the Web of Data include the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and the...
A Recommender System to Support the Scholarly Communication Process (2009)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Allen, David W., Shinavier, Joshua, Ebersole, Gary
The number of researchers, articles, journals, conferences, funding opportunities, and other such scholarly resources continues to grow every year and at an increasing rate. Many services have...
Faith in the Algorithm, Part 2: Computational Eudaemonics (2009)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Watkins, Jennifer H.
Eudaemonics is the study of the nature, causes, and conditions of human well-being. According to the ethical theory of eudaemonia, reaping satisfaction and fulfillment from life is not only a...
A Graph Analysis of the Linked Data Cloud (2009)
The Linked Data community is focused on integrating Resource Description Framework (RDF) data sets into a single unified representation known as the Web of Data. The Web of Data can be traversed by...
Faith in the Algorithm, Part 1: Beyond the Turing Test (2009)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Pepe, Alberto
Since the Turing test was first proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, the primary goal of artificial intelligence has been predicated on the ability for computers to imitate human behavior. However, the...
Revisiting the Age of Enlightenment from a Collective Decision Making Systems Perspective (2009)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Watkins, Jennifer H.
The ideals of the eighteenth century's Age of Enlightenment are the foundation of modern democracies. The era was characterized by thinkers who promoted progressive social reforms that opposed the...
A Boundary Approximation Algorithm for Distributed Sensor Networks (2009)
Ham, Michael I., Rodriguez, Marko A.
We present an algorithm for boundary approximation in locally-linked sensor networks that communicate with a remote monitoring station. Delaunay triangulations and Voronoi diagrams are used to...
A Grateful Dead analysis: The relationship between concert and listening behavior analysis (2009)
Marko A Rodriguez; LANL, Vadas Gintautas; LANL, Alberto Pepe; UCLA
The Grateful Dead was an American band born out of the 1960s San Francisco, California psychedelic movement, that played music together from 1965 to 1995. Despite relatively little popular radio...
A Clustering-Based Semi Automated Technique to Build Cultural Ontologies (2009)
Srinivasan, Ramesh, Pepe, Alberto, Rodriguez, Marko A
This article presents and validates a clustering-based method for creating cultural ontologies for community-oriented information systems. The introduced semiautomated approach merges distributed...
A Clustering-Based Semi Automated Technique to Build Cultural Ontologies (2009)
Srinivasan, Ramesh, Pepe, Alberto, Rodriguez, Marko A
This article presents and validates a clustering-based method for creating cultural ontologies for community-oriented information systems. The introduced semiautomated approach merges distributed...
Density-dependence of functional development in spiking cortical networks grown in vitro (2008)
Ham, Michael I., Gintautas, Vadas, Rodriguez, Marko A., Bennett, Ryan A., Maria, Cara L. Santa, Bettencourt, Luis M. A.
During development, the mammalian brain differentiates into specialized regions with distinct functional abilities. While many factors contribute to functional specialization, we explore the effect...
A Survey of Web-based Collective Decision Making Systems (2008)
Watkins, Jennifer H, Rodriguez, Marko A
A collective decision making system uses an aggregation mechanism to combine the input of individuals to generate a decision. The decisions generated serve a variety of purposes from governance...
An Evidential Path Logic for Multi-Relational Networks (2008)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Geldart, Joe
Multi-relational networks are used extensively to structure knowledge. Perhaps the most popular instance, due to the widespread adoption of the Semantic Web, is the Resource Description Framework...
A Distributed Process Infrastructure for a Distributed Data Structure (2008)
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is continuing to grow outside the bounds of its initial function as a metadata framework and into the domain of general-purpose data modeling. This expansion...
A Grateful Dead Analysis: The Relationship Between Concert and Listening Behavior (2008)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Gintautas, Vadas, Pepe, Alberto
The Grateful Dead were an American band that was born out of the San Francisco, California psychedelic movement of the 1960s. The band played music together from 1965 to 1995 and is well known for...
Automatic Metadata Generation using Associative Networks (2008)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Bollen, Johan, Van De Sompel, Herbert
In spite of its tremendous value, metadata is generally sparse and incomplete, thereby hampering the effectiveness of digital information services. Many of the existing mechanisms for the automated...
Exposing Multi-Relational Networks to Single-Relational Network Analysis Algorithms (2008)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Shinavier, Joshua
Many, if not most network analysis algorithms have been designed specifically for single-relational networks; that is, networks in which all edges are of the same type. For example, edges may either...
Towards Usage-based Impact Metrics: - First Results from the MESUR Project (2008)
Bollen, Johan, Van De Sompel, Herbert, Rodriguez, Marko A.
Scholarly usage data holds the potential to be used as a tool to study the dynamics of scholarship in real time, and to form the basis for the definition of novel metrics of scholarly impact....
A MULTI-RELATIONAL NETWORK TO SUPPORT THE SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION PROCESS (2008)
The general purpose of the scholarly communication process is to support the creation and dissemination of ideas within the scientific community. At a finer granularity, there exists multiple stages...
The large-scale analysis of scholarly artifact usage is constrained primarily by current practices in usage data archiving, privacy issues concerned with the dissemination of usage data, and the lack...
Mapping Semantic Networks to Undirected Networks (2008)
There exists an injective, information-preserving function that maps a semantic network (i.e a directed labeled network) to a directed network (i.e. a directed unlabeled network). The edge label in...
Title: Nodal Growth Algorithms for the Learning of Invariant Representations (2008)
Dirk Bollen, Francis Heylighen, Marko A. Rodriguez
Previous relevant activities of the research groups The Evolution, Complexity and Cognition (ECCO) group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel has investigated the selforganization...
Automatic Metadata Generation using Associative Networks (2008)
Marko A. Rodriguez, Johan Bollen, Herbert Van, De Sompel
In spite of its tremendous value, metadata is generally sparse and incomplete, thereby hampering the effectiveness of digital information services. Many of the existing mechanisms for the automated...
Marko A. Rodriguez, Johan Bollen, Herbert Van Sompel
This poster will present an analysis of the bid behavior of the 2005 JCDL program committee (Sumner, 2005). For each paper, poster, and tutorial submitted for review to the 2005 JCDL, each program...
ECCO Working Paper 2004-06 The Hyper-Cortex of Human Collective-Intelligence Systems (2008)
Individual-intelligence research, from a neurological perspective, describes the cortex as a medium for performing conceptual abstraction and specification. This idea has been used to explain how...
Grammar-Based Random Walkers in Semantic Networks (2008)
Semantic networks qualify the meaning of an edge relating any two vertices. Determining which vertices are most "central" in a semantic network is difficult because one relationship type may be...
The RDF Virtual Machine (2008)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Shinavier, Joshua
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a standard semantic network data model that is used to create machine-understandable descriptions of the world and is the basis of the Semantic Web; a...
Johan Bollen, Marko A. Rodriguez
Scholarly entities, such as articles, journals, authors and institutions, are now mostly ranked according to expert opinion and citation data. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded MESUR project at...
Rodriguez, Marko A., Pepe, Alberto
This article presents a study that compares detected structural communities in a coauthorship network to the socioacademic characteristics of the scholars that compose the network. The coauthorship...
Rodriguez, Marko A, Pepe, Alberto
This article presents a study that compares detected structural communities in a coauthorship network to the socioacademic characteristics of the scholars that compose the network. The coauthorship...
Using RDF to Model the Structure and Process of Systems (2007)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Watkins, Jennifer H., Bollen, Johan, Gershenson, Carlos
Many systems can be described in terms of networks of discrete elements and their various relationships to one another. A semantic network, or multi-relational network, is a directed labeled graph...
A Practical Ontology for the Large-Scale Modeling of Scholarly Artifacts and their Usage (2007)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Bollen, Johah, Van De Sompel, Herbert
The large-scale analysis of scholarly artifact usage is constrained primarily by current practices in usage data archiving, privacy issues concerned with the dissemination of usage data, and the lack...
Modeling Computations in a Semantic Network (2007)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Bollen, Johan
Semantic network research has seen a resurgence from its early history in the cognitive sciences with the inception of the Semantic Web initiative. The Semantic Web effort has brought forth an array...
General-Purpose Computing on a Semantic Network Substrate (2007)
This article presents a model of general-purpose computing on a semantic network substrate. The concepts presented are applicable to any semantic network representation. However, due to the standards...
Marko A. Rodriguez, Daniel J. Steinbock, Jennifer H. Watkins, Carlos Gershenson, Johan Bollen, Victor Grey, ...
Abstract — Smartocracy is a social software system for collective decision making. The system is composed of a social network that links individuals to those they trust to make good decisions and a...
Using RDF to model the structure and process of systems (2007)
Marko A. Rodriguez, Jennifer H. Watkins, Johan Bollen, Carlos Gershenson
Many systems can be described in terms of networks of discrete elements and their various relationships to one another. A semantic network, or multi-relational network, is a directed labeled graph...
Marko A. Rodriguez, Daniel J. Steinbock, Jennifer H. Watkins, Carlos Gershenson, Johan Bollen, Victor Grey, ...
Smartocracy is a social software system for collective decision making. The system is composed of a social network that links individuals to those they trust to make good decisions and a decision...
Mapping the Bid Behavior of Conference Referees (2007)
Marko A. Rodriguez, Johan Bollen
The peer-review process, in its present form, has been repeatedly criticized. Of the many critiques ranging from publication delays to referee bias, this paper will focus specifically on the issue of...
Using RDF to model the structure and process of systems (2007)
Marko A. Rodriguez, Jennifer H. Watkins, Johan Bollen, Carlos Gershenson
Many systems can be described in terms of networks of discrete elements and their various relationships to one another. A semantic network, or multi-relational network, is a directed labeled graph...
Social Decision Making with Multi-Relational Networks and Grammar-Based Particle Swarms (2006)
Social decision support systems are able to aggregate the local perspectives of a diverse group of individuals into a global social decision. This paper presents a multi-relational network ontology...
Mapping the Bid Behavior of Conference Referees (2006)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Bollen, Johan, Van De Sompel, Herbert
The peer-review process, in its present form, has been repeatedly criticized. Of the many critiques ranging from publication delays to referee bias, this paper will focus specifically on the issue of...
An Algorithm to Determine Peer-Reviewers (2006)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Bollen, Johan
The peer-review process is the most widely accepted certification mechanism for officially accepting the written results of researchers within the scientific community. An essential component of...
Simulating Network Influence Algorithms Using Particle-Swarms: PageRank and PageRank-Priors (2006)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Bollen, Johan
A particle-swarm is a set of indivisible processing elements that traverse a network in order to perform a distributed function. This paper will describe a particular implementation of a...
A Multi-Relational Network to Support the Scholarly Communication Process (2006)
The general pupose of the scholarly communication process is to support the creation and dissemination of ideas within the scientific community. At a finer granularity, there exists multiple stages...
Bollen, Johan, Rodriguez, Marko A., Van De Sompel, Herbert
The status of an actor in a social context is commonly defined in terms of two factors: the total number of endorsements the actor receives from other actors and the prestige of the endorsing actors....
Scholarly Impact: from Ranking to Assessment. (2006)
Johan Bollen, W. Mellon Foundation, Herbert Van, Sompel Journal, Marko A. Rodriguez, J. Bollen, ...
Scholarly evaluation matters. Zero-sum resources require proper allocation: • Appointment decisions • Funding decisions • Monitoring trends and identify emerging focii • Prioritize activities...
The anatomy of a large scale collective decision making system (2006)
Marko A. Rodriguez, Daniel J. Steinbock
This paper presents a general purpose framework for the design and implementation of a large scale collective decision making system. The unifying construct is a directed, weighted semantic network...
The Hyper-Cortex of Human Collective-Intelligence Systems (2005)
Individual-intelligence research, from a neurological perspective, discusses the hierarchical layers of the cortex as a structure that performs conceptual abstraction and specification. This theory...
The Convergence of Digital-Libraries and the Peer-Review Process (2005)
Rodriguez, Marko A., Bollen, Johan, Van De Sompel, Herbert
Pre-print repositories have seen a significant increase in use over the past fifteen years across multiple research domains. Researchers are beginning to develop applications capable of using these...
The convergence of digital libraries and (2005)
Marko A. Rodriguez, Johan Bollen
the peer-review process
Marko A. Rodriguez, Johan Bollen, Marko A. Rodriguez, Johan Bollen
The convergence of digital libraries and the peer-review process