FIRE-tutkimusryhmän vaikuttavuus

Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena on kuvata Finnish Information Retrieval Experts -tutkimusryhmän tutkimuksen vaikuttavuutta. Vaikuttavuutta on arvioitu tutkimalla ryhmän tutkimusjulkaisujen saamia viittauksia ja niiden jakautumista eri vuosille, maantieteellisille alueille sekä tieteellisten aikakauslehtien ja konferenssien mukaan. Tutkimusaineiston muodostivat tutkimusryhmän julkaisut vuosilta 2003–2012 ja niihin kohdistuneet viittaukset. Aineisto kerättiin Scopus- ja Google Scholar -tietokannoista. Tutkimuksessa havaittiin tutkimusryhmän julkaisujen saaneen viittauksia tasaisesti eri vuosina. Tarkasteltaessa viittausten jakautumista eri vuosina ilmestyneille julkaisuille todettiin vuoden 2005 julkaisujen saaneen eniten viittauksia. Tutkimusryhmällä on näkyvyyttä laadukkaissa tieteellisissä lehdissä ja se on saanut monipuolisesti huomiota eri konferenssien julkaisuissa. Tulosten perusteella ryhmä on kansainvälisesti tunnettu ja sen tieteellinen vaikuttavuus on hyvä

Geoinformatics in Citizen Science

The book features contributions that report original research in the theoretical, technological, and social aspects of geoinformation methods, as applied to supporting citizen science. Specifically, the book focuses on the technological aspects of the field and their application toward the recruitment of volunteers and the collection, management, and analysis of geotagged information to support volunteer involvement in scientific projects. Internationally renowned research groups share research in three areas: First, the key methods of geoinformatics within citizen science initiatives to support scientists in discovering new knowledge in specific application domains or in performing relevant activities, such as reliable geodata filtering, management, analysis, synthesis, sharing, and visualization; second, the critical aspects of citizen science initiatives that call for emerging or novel approaches of geoinformatics to acquire and handle geoinformation; and third, novel geoinformatics research that could serve in support of citizen science

Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns

Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse