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The Layered World of Scientific Conferences

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Progress in WWW Research and Development (APWeb 2008)

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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.

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  1. Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    Michael Kuhn & Roger Wattenhofer

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Kuhn, M., Wattenhofer, R. (2008). The Layered World of Scientific Conferences. In: Zhang, Y., Yu, G., Bertino, E., Xu, G. (eds) Progress in WWW Research and Development. APWeb 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4976. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78849-2_10

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