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Article on Visual Analytics for Technology and Innovation Management Published in Journal Multimedia Tools and Applications

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We are glad to announce that our article Visual analytics for technology and innovation management: An interaction approach for strategic decision making gets published in the current special issue of the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications.

Article: Visual analytics for technology and innovation management: An interaction approach for strategic decision making

Abstract:
The awareness of emerging trends is essential for strategic decision making because technological trends can affect a firm’s competitiveness and market position. The rise of artificial intelligence methods allows gathering new insights and may support these decision-making processes. However, it is essential to keep the human in the loop of these complex analytical tasks, which, often lack an appropriate interaction design. Including special interactive designs for technology and innovation management is therefore essential for successfully analyzing emerging trends and using this information for strategic decision making. A combination of information visualization, trend mining and interaction design can support human users to explore, detect, and identify such trends. This paper enhances and extends a previously published first approach for integrating, enriching, mining, analyzing, identifying, and visualizing emerging trends for technology and innovation management. We introduce a novel interaction design by investigating the main ideas from technology and innovation management and enable a more appropriate interaction approach for technology foresight and innovation detection.

Link to Paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-10972-3

Article Published to Visual Data Analytics in impact Magazine for Applied Research and Art

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The impact Magazine for Applied Research and Art of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences published an article, based on an interview with Prof. Dr. Kawa Nazemi, to the research field Visual Data Analytics.

The article is about how tangible patterns can be discerned from huge data sets with the help of visual analysis and representation, and how applicable predictions can be made using a combination of artificial and human intelligence: That is the specialty of Kawa Nazemi, professor for computer science at the h_da’s Department of Media. The head of the Human-Computer Interaction and Visual Analytics research group is a sought-after expert in this still-young field and is also successfully making his mark on the international stage.

Further information

Irtaza Rasheed defended his Master Thesis on Name Disambiguation on Digital Library Data for an Enhanced Profile Analysis in Visual Trend Analytics

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In his thesis, Irtaza Rasheed implementated a universal name disambiguation approach that considers almost any existing property to identify authors. After an author of a paper is identied, the normalized name writing form on the paper is used to refine the author model and even give an overview about the different writing forms of the author’s name. This can be achieved by first examine the research on Human-Computer Interaction specifically with focus on (Visual) Trend Analysis. Furthermore, a research on different name disambiguation techniques. After that, building a concept and implementing a generalized method to identify author name and affiliation disambiguation while evaluating different properties.

Two succeeful Submissions to ICTE in Transportation and Logistics book

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We could successfully submit two chapters to the current ICTE in Transportation and Logistics book. The goal of the book “ICTE in Transportation and Logistics” is an interdisciplinary annual issue published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG on the edge between transportation, logistics, economy and computer science highlighting sociotechnical aspects of any real sustainable system. The issue would be the announcing area of successful research projects giving possibilities for fast dissemination the information about new findings. The book will be covered by Scopus and Web of Science.

#1 Visual Analytics in Mobility, Transportation and Logistics

Mobility, transportation and logistics are more and more influenced by a variety of indicators such as new technological developments, ecological and economic changes, political decisions and in particular humans’ mobility behavior. These indicators will lead to massive changes in our daily live with regards to mobility, transportation and logistics. New technologies will lead to a different mobility behavior with new constraints. These changes in mobility behavior and logistics require analytical systems to forecast the required information and probably appearing changes. These systems have to consider different perspectives and employ multiple indicators. Visual Analytics provides both, the analytical approaches by including machine learning approaches and interactive visualizations to enable such analytical tasks. In this paper the main indicators for Visual Analytics in the domain of mobility transportation and logistics are discussed and followed by exemplary case studies to illustrate the advantages of such systems. The examples are aimed to demonstrate the benefits of Visual Analytics in mobility.

Link to paper: doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-39688-6_12

#2 Process Support and Visual Adaptation to Assist Visual Trend Analytics in Managing Transportation Innovations

In the domain of mobility and logistics, a variety of new technologies and business ideas are arising. Beside technologies that aim on ecologically and economic transportation, such as electric engines, there are also fundamental different approaches like central packaging stations or deliveries via drones. Yet, there is a growing need for analytical systems that enable identifying new technologies, innovations, business models etc. and give also the opportunity to rate those in perspective of business relevance. Commonly adaptive systems investigate only the users’ behavior, while a process-related supports could assist to solve an analytical task more efficient and effective. In this article an approach that enables non-experts to perform visual trend analysis through an advanced process support based on process mining is described. This allow us to calculate a process model based on events, which is the baseline for process support feature calculation. These features and the process model enable to assist non-expert users in complex analytical tasks.

Link to paper: doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-39688-6_40

Lecturing within Workshop on User-oriented process (re)design and information systems modelling – a case of smart city services

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In time from 18th to 19th of June 2018 the Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism of the University of Split (Croatia) initiate a project workshop on “User-oriented process (re)design and information systems modelling – a case of smart city services”. The scientific community discusses about benefits and challenge in using modern technology in smart cities. As lecturer Prof. Dr. Nazemi was invited to contribute about Data Mining and Visual Analytics in smart city administrations, among other, to consider citizens opinions and ideas in governance processes. More information to the Project: http://smartcity.efst.hr

Talk about Intelligent Visualization on GI Rhein-Main (Society for Informatics)

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Prof. Dr. Kawa Nazemi gave a talk on Intelligent Visualization and Visual Analytics on the regional meeting of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (Society for Informatics). In his talk he outlined the main purposes and future directions of Information Visualization, Visual Analytics and Intelligent Visualizations. The talk was given in German. Further information about the talk can be found here.

Events

Thesis Presentation: Named-Entity Recognition on Publications and Raw-Text for Meticulous Insight at Visual Trend Analytics

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Where: TU Darmstadt / GRIS, Fraunhoferstr. 5 (Darmstadt), Room tba

!!!!! Due to the Corona crisis and the accompanying restrictions at the TU Darmstadt, the exam will be non-public! !!!!!

Who: Ubaid Rana (Author), Prof. Dr. Arjan Kuijper (Supervisor), Dipl.-Inf. Dirk Burkhardt (Advisor/Co-Supervisor)
What: Master Thesis – “Named-Entity Recognition on Publications and Raw-Text for Meticulous Insight at Visual Trend Analytics”

Abstract:

In the modern data-driven era, a massive amount of research documents are available from publicly accessible digital libraries in the form of academic papers, journals and publications. This plethora of data does not lead to new insights or knowledge. Therefore, suitable analysis techniques and graphical tools are needed to derive knowledge in order to get insight of this big data. To address this issue, researchers have developed visual analytical systems along with machine learning methods, e.g text mining with interactive data visualization, which leads to gain new insights of current and upcoming technology trends. These trends are significant for researchers, business analysts, and decision-makers for innovation, technology management and to make strategic decisions.
Nearly every existing search portal uses the traditional meta-information e.g only about the author and title to find the documents that match a search request and overlook the opportunity of extracting content-related information. It limits the possibility of discovering most relevant publications, moreover it lacks the knowledge required for trend analysis. To collect this very concrete information, named entity recognition must be used to be able to better identify the results and trends. The state-of-the-art systems use static approach for named entity recognition which means that upcoming technologies remain undetected. Modern techniques like distant supervision methods leverage big existing community-maintained data sources, such as Wikipedia, to extract entities dynamically. Nonetheless, these methods are still unstable and have never been tried on complex scenarios such as trend analysis before.
The aim of this thesis is to enable entity recognition on both static tables and dynamic community updated data sources like Wikipedia & DBpedia for trend analysis. To accomplish this goal, a model is suggested which enabled entity extraction on DBpedia and translated the extracted entities into interactive visualizations. The analysts can use these visualizations to gain trend insights, evaluate research trends or to analyze prevailing market moods and industry trends.

Thesis Presentation: Contrasted Data from Science and Web for Advanced Visual Trend Analytics

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Where: TU Darmstadt / GRIS, Fraunhoferstr. 5, Room 073 Who: Rehman Ahmed Abdul (Author), Prof. Dr. Arjan Kuijper (Supervisor), Dipl.-Inf. Dirk Burkhardt (Advisor/Co-Supervisor) What: Master Thesis – “Contrasted Data from Science and Web for Advanced Visual Trend Analytics” Abstract: With more publicly accessible digital libraries accessible, a plethora of digital research data is now available for gaining insights into actual and upcoming technology trends. These trends are essential to researchers, business analysts, and decision-makers for making strategic decisions and setting strategic goals. Appropriate processing and graphical analysis methods are required in order to extract meaningful information from the data. In particular, the combination of data mining approaches together with visual analytics leads to real beneficial applications to support decision making in e.g. innovation or technology management. The data from digital libraries is only limited to research and overlooks the market aspects e.g if the trend is not important for key business players, it is irrelevant for the market. This importance of market aspects creates a demand for validation approaches based on market data. Most of the current market data can be found publically on websites and social networks, e.g. as news from enterprises or on tech review sites or on tech blogs. Therefore, it makes sense to consider this public and social media data as contrasting data to the research digital library data that can be used to validate technology trends. The goal of this thesis is to enable trend analysis on public and social web data and compare it with retrieved trends based on research library data to enable validation of trends. To achieve this goal a model is proposed that acquires public/social web and digital library data based on user-defined scope called a “campaign”, which is then visually transformed from raw data into interactive visualizations passing through different stages of data management, enrichment, transformation, and visual mapping. These interactive visualizations can either be used in insight analysis to gain trend insights for an individual data source or they can be used in comparative analysis with the goal of validating trends from two contrasting data sources.

Thesis Presentation: Visual Trend Analysis on Condensed Expert Data beside Research Library Data for Enhanced Insights

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Where: TU Darmstadt / GRIS, Fraunhoferstr. 5, Room 073 Who: Muhammad Ali Riaz (Author), Prof. Dr. Arjan Kuijper (Supervisor), Dipl.-Inf. Dirk Burkhardt (Advisor/Co-Supervisor) What: Master Thesis – “Visual Trend Analysis on Condensed Expert Data beside Research Library Data for Enhanced Insights” Abstract: In the present age of information, we live amidst seas of digital text documents including academic publications, white papers, news articles, patents, newspapers. To tackle the issue of the ever-increasing amount of text documents, researchers from the field of text mining and information visualization have developed tools and techniques to facilitate text analysis. In the context of visual trend analysis on text data, the use of well-structured patent data and public digital libraries are quite established. However, both sources of information have their limitations. For instance, the registration process for patents takes at least one year, which makes the extracted insights not suitable to research on present scenarios. In contrast to patent data, the digital libraries are up-to-date but provide high-level insights, only limited to broader research domains, and the data usage is almost restricted on meta information, such as title, author names and abstract, and they do not provide full text. For a certain type of detailed analysis such as competitor analysis or portfolio analysis, data from digital libraries is not enough, it would also make sense to analyze the full-text. Even more, it can be beneficial to analyze only a limited dataset that is filtered by an expert towards a very specific field, such as additive printing or smart wearables for medical observations. Sometimes also a mixture of both digital library data and manually collected documents is relevant to be able to validate a certain trend, where one gives a big picture and other gives a very condensed overview of the present scenario. The thesis aims, therefore, to focus on such manually collected documents by experts that can be defined as condensed data. So, the major goal of this thesis is to conceptualize and implement a solution that enables the creation and analysis of such a condensed data set and compensate therewith the limitations of digital library data analysis. As a result, a visual trend analysis system for analyzing text documents is presented, it utilizes the best of both state-of-the-art text analytics and information visualization techniques. In a nutshell, the presented trend analysis system does two things. Firstly, it is capable of extracting raw data from text documents in the form of unstructured text and meta-data, convert it into structured and analyzable formats, extract trends from it and present it with appropriate visualizations. Secondly, the system is also capable of performing gap-analysis tasks between two data sources, which in this case is digital library data and data from manually collected text documents (Condensed Expert Data). The proposed visual trend analysis system can be used by researchers for analyzing the research trends, organizations to identify current market buzz and industry trends, and many other use-cases where text data is the primary source of valuable information.

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