Maintaining Live Discussion in Two-Stage Open Peer Review

Open peer review has been proposed for a number of reasons, in particular, for increasing the transparency of the article selection process for a journal, and for obtaining a broader basis for feedback to the authors and for the acceptance decision. The review discussion may also in itself have a value for the research community. These goals rely on the existence of a lively review discussion, but several experiments with open-process peer review in recent years have encountered the problem of faltering review discussions. The present article addresses the question of how lively review discussion may be fostered by relating the experience of the journal Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI) which was an early experiment with open peer review. Factors influencing the discussion activity are identified. It is observed that it is more difficult to obtain lively discussion when the number of contributed articles increases, which implies difficulties for scaling up the open peer review model. Suggestions are made for how this difficulty may be overcome

Peer review innovations in Humanities: how can scholars in A&H profit of the "wisdom of the crowds"?

Though supported by a large number of scholars in Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) disciplines traditional peer review does not live up to the needs of an efficient scholarly communication system and of quality research control. Therefore journals in STM are experimenting different forms of refereeing in combination with more traditional peer review system. Such is the case of PLoSONE, Biology Direct, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and JIME. However in STM disciplines public peer review is not regarded an alternative to more traditional quality certification forms. It may be the case in the Arts & Humanities. In A&H publishing system peer review is by far a less common practice. Therefore the adoption of a social peer review process could be very useful to foster research in humanities. Scholars in A&H can profit of the interactive evaluation forms of the public peer-review to strengthen the scholarly debate, to foster active international and interdisciplinary discussions, to focus social attention on topics in Humanities, to broaden the borders of the cultural and intellectual discourse among non-scholars (public debate). This paper will provide some examples of how social peer review has been adopted by innovative communities of scholars in humanities to publish new experimental digital book models. In the digital environment the concepts of “document”, of “completeness of a document” and of “evaluation” is fast changing. In a close future in scholarly publishing it might become possible to overcome the rigid distinction between ex-ante and ex-post evaluation as the evaluation process might become an enduring part of the text itsel

AI Library Guide - Presented to Faculty as part of the Teaching and Learning Center Workshop Series

AI Library Guide - Presented to Faculty as part of the Teaching and Learning Center Workshop Serieshttps://libguides.ecsu.edu/c.php?g=134979

Knowledge Services for eBusiness

Dynamic value chain activities and complex decisions require the transparent flow of information and seamless knowledge exchange among multiple value chain participants. Advances in semantic web-based technologies offer the means to integrate heterogeneous systems across organizations in a meaningful way by incorporating Ontology, a common, standard and shareable vocabulary used to represent the meaning of system entities; Knowledge Representation, with structured collections of information and sets of inference rules that can be used to conduct automated reasoning; and Intelligent Agents that collect content from diverse sources and exchange semantically enriched information. This research applies fundamental work done in semantic web technologies including ontologies, knowledge representation, multi-agent systems and the webservices architecture to develop a system architecture that enables semantically enriched collaborative eBusiness process. We describe the feasibility of the knowledge services architecture to enable the transparent exchange of information and knowledge among agents that manage eBusiness processes to enhance online processes in an eMarketplace