The layered world of scientific conferences

  • Authors:
  • Michael Kuhn;Roger Wattenhofer

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland;Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • APWeb'08 Proceedings of the 10th Asia-Pacific web conference on Progress in WWW research and development
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Recent models have introduced the notion of dimensions and hierarchies in social networks. These models motivate the mining of small world graphs under a new perspective. We exemplary base our work on a conference graph, which is constructed from the DBLP publication records. We show that this graph indeed exhibits a layered structure as the models suggest. We then introduce a subtraction approach that allows to segregate layers. Using this technique we separate the conference graph into a thematic and a quality layer. As concrete applications of the discussed methods we present a novel rating method as well as a conference search tool that bases on our graph and its layer separation.