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A Multi-Relational Network to Support the Scholarly Communication Process
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 which, when confronted by a member of
the community, have different requirements and therefore different solutions.
In order to take a researcher's idea from an initial inspiration to a community
resource, the scholarly communication infrastructure may be required to 1)
provide a scientist initial seed ideas; 2) form a team of well suited
collaborators; 3) located the most appropriate venue to publish the formalized
idea; 4) determine the most appropriate peers to review the manuscript; and 5)
disseminate the end product to the most interested members of the community.
Through the various delinieations of this process, the requirements of each
stage are tied soley to the multi-functional resources of the community: its
researchers, its journals, and its manuscritps. It is within the collection of
these resources and their inherent relationships that the solutions to
scholarly communication are to be found. This paper describes an associative
network composed of multiple scholarly artifacts that can be used as a medium
for supporting the scholarly communication process.Comment: keywords: digital libraries and scholarly communicatio
Faith in the Algorithm, Part 1: Beyond the Turing Test
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 majority of uses for the
computer can be said to fall outside the domain of human abilities and it is
exactly outside of this domain where computers have demonstrated their greatest
contribution to intelligence. Another goal for artificial intelligence is one
that is not predicated on human mimicry, but instead, on human amplification.
This article surveys various systems that contribute to the advancement of
human and social intelligence
An Algorithm to Determine Peer-Reviewers
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 peer-review is the
identification of competent referees to review a submitted manuscript. This
article presents an algorithm to automatically determine the most appropriate
reviewers for a manuscript by way of a co-authorship network data structure and
a relative-rank particle-swarm algorithm. This approach is novel in that it is
not limited to a pre-selected set of referees, is computationally efficient,
requires no human-intervention, and, in some instances, can automatically
identify conflict of interest situations. A useful application of this
algorithm would be to open commentary peer-review systems because it provides a
weighting for each referee with respects to their expertise in the domain of a
manuscript. The algorithm is validated using referee bid data from the 2005
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.Comment: Rodriguez, M.A., Bollen, J., "An Algorithm to Determine
Peer-Reviewers", Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, in
press, ACM, LA-UR-06-2261, October 2008; ISBN:978-1-59593-991-
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