Tonight we started the closed beta of ginkgo, a cool new tool for the management of scientific events that also makes use of AANs. ginkgo is no classical conference management system. It rather combines conference management functions with those known from social networking sites. The goal of ginkgo is to raise awareness of researchers, [...]

A new publication has been published that discusses how sociofact analysis using Artefact-Actor-Networks (or similar techniques) could increase business agility. The publication was written with colleagues from the MATURE project and presented an the workshop on AI for Business Agility in the context of the AAAI Spring Symposium 2011. Abstract: The increasing agility of business [...]

We are still exploring ways to best visualize topical relations between Tweets. This time we used Gephi and the Seadragon plugin to build and visualize a zoomable graph of hashtag-connected tweets. We took all the 6800+ tweets that have been tagged with #ple_bcn from Twapperkeeper, looked for additional hashtags that were used and draw edges between the [...]

In Artefact-Actor-Networks we are analyzing data from social media in order to enhance researchers’ awareness about their collaboration, activities of their fellow researchers, ongoing processes and emerging trends. This week we released the beta version of a service that is important for gaining clean user data for those analyzes. The service is called soharc which [...]

We are relying on Twitter as one of the most used service for sharing links and news with colleagues and friends. Twitter is thus a good example for the power of the Artefact-Actor-Network model. In my personal blog I published the following article that is also interesting for this audience: With the recent announcement from [...]

In the coming months we will apply Artefact-Actor-Networks to several scientific conferences in order to enhance the attendees’ awareness of what is going on at the conference. These small-scale studies are being carried out under the umbrella of the STELLAR network of excellence. For doing so we will ask attendees of scientific conferences (e.g. EC-TEL [...]