Dissemination

Dissemination material related to the Dicode project can be found below.

Dicode Scientific Workshops

• Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration through the Synergy of Human and Machine Reasoning (dicoSyn 2012) - a workshop at CSCW 2012.
• Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD 2012) - a workshop at EKAW 2012.
• Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD 2013) - a workshop at Hypertext 2013.

Videos

• Using the Dicode Services in the context of Use Case 1
• Using the Dicode Services in the context of Use Case 2
• Using the Dicode Services in the context of Use Case 3

Publications

• N. Karacapilidis, S. Rueping and I. Drost: Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making through a Cloud Infrastructure. ERCIM News, No 83, October 2010, pp. 49-50.
• M. García-Remesal, A. Cuevas, D. Pérez-Rey, L. Martín, A. Anguita, D. de la Iglesia, G. de la Calle, J. Crespo and V. Maojo: PubDNA Finder: a web database linking full-text articles to sequences of nucleic acids. Bioinformatics. November 2010, 26(21):2801-2802. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq520
• V. Maojo, J. Crespo, M. García-Remesal, D. de la Iglesia, D. Perez-Rey and C. Kulikowski: Biomedical Ontologies: Toward Scientific Debate. Methods of information in medicine. May 2011, 50(3):203-216. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME10-05-0004
• A. Paramythis, L. Lau, S. Demetriadis, M. Tzagarakis and S. Kleanthous (eds.): Proceedings of the International Workshop on Adaptive Support for Team Collaboration 2011 (ASTC 2011) - held in conjunction with the International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 15, 2011, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 743.
• A. Ammari, V. Dimitrova, L. Lau, M. Tzagarakis, and N. Karacapilidis: Augmented Collaborative Spaces for Collective Sense Making: The Dicode Approach. In: A. Paramythis, L. Lau, S. Demetriadis, M. Tzagarakis, & S. Kleanthous (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Adaptive Support for Team Collaboration 2011 (ASTC 2011), Girona, Spain, July 15, 2011, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 743, pp. 3-13.
• N. Karacapilidis: Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making through a Cloud Infrastructure: The Dicode EU project. EMBnet.journal, Vol. 17, No 1, July 2011, p. 3
• N. Karacapilidis, S. Rüping, M. Tzagarakis, A. Poigné and S. Christodoulou: Building on the synergy of machine and human reasoning to tackle data-intensive collaboration and decision making. In: J. Watada, G. Philips-Wren, L.C. Jain and R.J. Howlett (eds.), Intelligent Decision Technologies - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT 2011), Piraeus, Greece, July 20-22, 2011, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, Vol. 10, pp. 113-122. Best Research Paper Award
• F. Yang-Turner and L. Lau: A Pragmatic Strategy for Creative Requirements Elicitation. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Systems and Systems-of-Systems. Held in conjunction with the 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 29 Aug - 2 Sept, 2011, Trento, Italy.
• F. Yang-Turner and L. Lau: Extending Use Case Diagrams to Support Requirements Discovery. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Systems and Systems-of-Systems. Held in conjunction with the 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 29 Aug - 2 Sept, 2011, Trento, Italy.
• Dhavalkumar Thakker, Vania Dimitrova, Lydia Lau, Ronald Denaux, Stan Karanasios and Fan Yang-Turner: A Priori Ontology Modularisation in Ill-defined Domains. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-Semantics 2011), 7-9 September 2011, Graz, Austria.
• N. Karacapilidis, M. Tzagarakis, S. Christodoulou and G. Tsiliki: Facilitating Scientific Collaboration in Data-Intensive Biomedical Settings. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Workshop on Biomedical Engineering, Kos Island, Greece, October 5-7, 2011, CD-ROM version (paper #369).
• D. Thakker, F. Yang-Turner, L. Lau and V. Dimitrova (2011): Socio-technical Ontology Development for Modelling Sensemaking in Heterogeneous Domains. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies Come of Age in the Semantic Web (OCAS2011) at the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Bonn, Germany, October 24, 2011.
• G. Tsiliki and S. Kossida (2011): Fusion methodologies for biomedical data. Journal of Proteomics, Vol. 74, Issue 12, pp. 2774–2785.
• N. Karacapilidis, N. Karousos, M. Tzagarakis and S. Christodoulou (2011): Mitigating the cognitive overload of contemporary argumentation-based collaboration settings. In: D. Georgakopoulos and J.B.D. Joshi (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2011), Orlando, FL, USA, October 15-18, 2011, pp. 516-519.
• N. Karacapilidis, L. Lau, C. Lee and S. Rüping (2012): Mastering data-intensive collaboration through the synergy of human and machine reasoning. In: S.E. Poltrock, C. Simone, J. Grudin, G. Mark and J. Riedl (eds.), Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2012) - Companion Volume, Seattle, WA, USA, February 11-15, 2012, ACM Press, pp. 21-22.
• N. Friesen and S. Rüping (2012): Distance Metric Learning for Recommender Systems in Complex Domains. In Proceedings of CSCW 2012 Workshop on Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration through the Synergy of Human and Machine Reasoning (dicoSyn 2012), Seattle, WA, February 12, 2012.
• M. Tzagarakis, S. Christodoulou and N. Karacapilidis: On the identification and integration of countermeasures to cope with data intensiveness in collaboration settings. In: Proceedings of CSCW 2012 workshop on Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration through the Synergy of Human and Machine Reasoning (dicoSyn 2012). Seattle, WA, February 12, 2012.
• D. Perez-Rey, A. Jiménez-Castellanos, M. Garcia-Remesal, J. Crespo and V. Maojo (2012): CDAPubMed: a browser extension to retrieve EHR-based biomedical literature. BMC medical informatics and decision making. 2012 Apr;12(1):29+. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-12-29.
• P. N. Mendes, M. Jakob, C. Bizer (2012): DBpedia: A Multilingual Cross-domain Knowledge Base. In Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), May 23-25, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.
• G. de la Calle, M. García-Remesal, M. Tzagarakis, S. Christodolou, G. Tsiliki and N. Karacapilidis (2012): On a Meaningful Integration of Web Services in Data-Intensive Biomedical Environments: The DICODE Approach. In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical System (CBMS 2012), 20-22 June 2012, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy, pp. 597-600
• N. Karacapilidis and M. Tzagarakis (2012): Towards a Seamless Integration of Human and Machine Reasoning in Data-Intensive Collaborative Decision Making Settings: The Dicode Approach. In: Ana Respicio and Frada Burstein (eds.), Fusing Decision Support Systems into the Fabric of the Context – Proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG8.3 International Conference on Decision Support Systems (DSS 2012), Anavissos, Greece, June 28-30, 2012, IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 223-228.
• N. Karacapilidis, S. Rüping, G. Tsiliki and M. Tzagarakis (2012): Towards a Meaningful Analysis of Big Data: Enhancing Data Mining Techniques through a Collaborative Decision Making Environment. In: Markus Helfert, Chiara Francalanci and Joaquim Filipe (eds.), Proceedings of the the 1st International Conference on Data Technologies and Applications (DATA 2012), Rome, Italy, July 25-27, 2012, pp. 141-146.
• G. de la Calle, M. García-Remesal, N. Nkumu-Mbomio, C. Kulikowski and V. Maojo (2012):e-MIR2: a public online inventory of medical informatics resources. BMC medical informatics and decision making. 2012 Aug;12(1):82+. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-12-82.
• H. Grosskreutz, D. Paurat, S. Rüping (2012): An Enhanced Relevance Criterion For More Concise Supervised Pattern Discovery. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2012), Beijing, China, August 12-16, 2012, pp. 1442-1450.
• Ν. Karacapilidis, R. Loeffler, D. Maassen and M. Tzagarakis (2012): Augmenting Social Media Monitoring through Human Collaboration. In: Manuel Graña, Carlos Toro, Jorge Posada, Robert J. Howlett and Lakhmi C. Jain (eds.), Advances in Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2012), San Sebastian, Spain, September 10-12, 2012, IOS Press, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 243, pp. 1021-1030. Available from: http://booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=32042.
• Yang-Turner, F. and Lau, L. (2012): Human Factors in Forum Exploration: A Sensemaking Perspective. The International Workshop on Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD 2012), October 8-9, 2012.
• Yang-Turner, F. (2012): A general-to-specific architectural design for managing requirements evolution. Invited paper at Dagstuhl Seminar “Requirements Management – Novel Perspectives and Challenges”, 28-31 October 2012. In Requirements Management – Novel Perspectives and Challenges (Dagstuhl Seminar 12442) Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 2, Issue 10, p.140.
• G. Tsiliki, S. Kossida, N. Friesen, S. Rüping, M. Tzagarakis and N. Karacapilidis (2012): Data mining based collaborative analysis of microarray data. In: Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2012) (ICTAI 2012), Athens, Greece, November 7-9, 2012, pp. 682-689.
• G. de la Calle, E. Alonso-Martínez, M. Tzagarakis and N. Karacapilidis: The Dicode Workbench (2012): A Flexible Framework for the Integration of Information and Web Services. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2012), Bali, Indonesia, December 3-5, 2012, pp. 15-25. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2428736.2428745.
• Yang-Turner, F., Lau, L. and Dimitrova, V.: A Model-Driven Prototype Evaluation to Elicit Requirements for a Sensemaking Support Tool. In Proceedings of the 19th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2012), Hong Kong, December 4-7, 2012, Volume 01, pp. 380-385. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/APSEC.2012.129.
• N. Karacapilidis, M. Tzagarakis, S. Christodoulou and G. Tsiliki (2012): Facilitating and Augmenting Collaboration in the Biomedical Domain. International Journal of Systems Biology and Biomedical Technologies, Vol. 1, No 1, 2012, pp. 52-65.
• Denaux, R., Thakker, D. A., Dimitrova, V., and Cohn, T. (2012):Interactive semantic feedback for intuitive ontology authoring. In 7th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2012). ). Graz, Austria. 2012. Available from: http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=31184.
• Gkotsis, G. and Karacapilidis, N. (2012): A computational model for the identification and assessment of structural similarities in argumentative discourses. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Vol. 39, No 3, 2012, pp. 789-811. DOI: 10.1007/s10844-012-0212-9. Available from http://www.springerlink.com/content/85764v32433m7570/.
• D. A. Thakker, K. Kozaki, V. Dimitrova, T. Jameson, R. Mizoguchi (2013): Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data at the Hypertext 2013, Paris, France, 1 May, 2013, ACM. Available from: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2462197.
• Tzagarakis, M. and Karacapilidis, N. (2013): On the Exploitation of Semantic Types in the Visualization of Complex Argumentative Discourses. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD 2013), Paris, France, May 1, 2013 (held in conjunction with the Hypertext 2013 Conference), pp. 3:1-3:7.
• Dimitrova V., Lau, L., Thakker, D.A, Yang-Turner, F. Despotakis, D. (2013): Exploring Exploratory Search: A User Study with Linked Semantic Data (2013). In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Exploration of Semantic Data (IESD 2013). In conjunction with the ACM conference on Hypertext 2013, Paris, France, May 1-3, 2013. ACM.
• Christodoulou, S., Karacapilidis, N. and Tzagarakis, M. (2013): Advancing collaborative decision making through alternative visualizations and reasoning mechanisms. In: R. Neves-Silva, J. Watada, G. Philips-Wren, L.C. Jain and R.J. Howlett (eds.), In: Intelligent Decision Technologies - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT 2013), Sesimbra, Portugal, June 26-28, 2013, IOS Press BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 255, pp. 38-47.
• Thakker, D.A, Dimitrova V., Lau, L.,Yang-Turner, F. Despotakis, D.: Assisting User Browsing over Linked Data: Requirements Elicitation with a User Study. In: F. Daniel, P. Dolog and Q. Li (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2013), Aalborg, Denmark, July 8-12, 2013. LNCS 7977, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 376-383.
• Karacapilidis, N., Tsiliki, G. and Tzagarakis, M. (2013): Enhancing Collaboration in Big Biomedical Data Settings: Knowledge Visualization, Data Mining and Decision Making Issues. In: Markus Helfert, Chiara Francalanci and Joaquim Filipe (eds.), In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications (DATA 2013), Reykjavik, Iceland, July 29-31, 2013, pp. 23-31.
• Yang-Turner, F., Lau, L., Dimitrova, V. and Thakker, D. (2013): Profiling Exploratory Browsing Behaviour with a Semantic Data Browser. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013), Chicago, Illinois, August 15-17, 2013, AIS.
• Karacapilidis, N., Tsiliki, G., Tzagarakis, M., Christodoulou, S., Friesen, N. and Rueping, S. (2013): Collaborative discovery of biomedical knowledge: The Dicode platform. In: Matthias Korn, Tommaso Colombino and Myriam Lewkowicz (eds.), Adjunct Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2013), Paphos, Cyprus, September 21-25, 2013, pp. 123-124.
• Karacapilidis, N., Tzagarakis, M., and Christodoulou, S. (2013): On a meaningful exploitation of machine and human reasoning to tackle data-intensive decision making. Intelligent Decision Technologies Journal, Vol. 7, No 3, 2013, pp. 225-236.
• Tsiliki, G., Tzagarakis, M., Christodoulou, S., Kossida, S. and Karacapilidis, N. (2013): An innovative approach to enhance collaboration in the biomedical field. International Journal of Systems Biology and Biomedical Technologies, Vol. 2, No 1, 2013, pp. 51-64.
• Kleanthous, S. and Dimitrova, V. (2013): Adaptive Notifications to Support Knowledge Sharing in Close-Knit Virtual Communities. User Modeling and User-adapted Interaction Journal, Vol. 23, Issue 2-3, pp. 287-343. DOI : 10.1007/s11257-012-9127-y. Available from http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11257-012-9127-y
• Daiber, J., Jakob, M., Hokamp, C. and Mendes, P. (2013): Improving Efficiency and Accuracy in Multilingual Entity Extraction. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS 2013), Graz, Austria, 4–6 September 2013, pp. 121-124. DOI: 10.1145/2506182.2506198. Available from http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2506182.2506198
• Lehmann, J., Isele, R. and Jakob, M. et al. (2013): DBpedia - A Large-scale, Multilingual Knowledge Base Extracted from Wikipedia, Semantic Web Journal. Available from http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/dbpedia-large-scale-multilingual-knowledge-base-extracted-wikipedia-0(under review).
• Karacapilidis, N., Tzagarakis, M., and Christodoulou, S. and Tsiliki, G. (2014): Embedding data mining in a collaborative data analysis and decision making process. 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014), April 7-11, 2014, Seoul, Korea (submitted).
• Karacapilidis, N. (ed.) (2014): Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making: Cutting-edge research and practical applications in the Dicode project. “Studies for Computational Intelligence” Book Series (http://www.springer.com/series/7092), Springer (under preparation, to appear in 2014).
• Tzagarakis, M. and Karacapilidis, N. (2014): Using Semantic Types to Formalize and Augment Complex Argumentative Discourses. Intelligent Decision Technologies Journal (accepted, to appear).

Talks and Presentations

• "Intelligent data analysis - Apache Mahout" - presentation by Isabel Drost at Devoxx, Antwerp, November 2010. [slides|video]
• "Scaling Intelligent Data Analysis with Apache Mahout" - presentation by Isabel Drost at codebits, Lisbon, November 2010 (travel and hotel kindly sponsored by Sapo.pt). [slides|video]
• "Apache Mahout - making data analysis easy"- presentation by Isabel Drost at Apache Con US, Atlanta, November 2010. [slides]
• "Scaling Data Analysis with Apache Mahout" - presentation by Isabel Drost at O'Reilly Strata, Santa Clara, Feburary 2011.
• Semantic/NLP Hackathon at Berlin Buzzwords Conference, June 2011 Report by Olivier Grisel
• "Unite to Triumph and Divide to Conquer: Intuitive, Iterative, and Modular Ontology Authoring" - Keynote talk by Vania Dimitrova at the 3rd International Conference on Software, Services & Semantic Technologies, September 1-3, 2011, Bourgas, Bulgaria (presenting the work on ROO, DON, and Augmentor).
• "I love this brand" - Presentation of the Dicode approach by Ralf Löffler at the Marketing Horizonte, Cologne, Germany, September 2011.
• "Entendre: Interactive Semantic Feedback for Ontology Authoring" - Demo by R. Denaux, D. Thakker, V. Dimitrova and A.G. Cohn at the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Bonn, Germany, October 2011.
• "Named Entity statistics using Apache Pig" - Lightning Talk by Max Jakob at Berlin Buzzwords Conference, June 2012.[video]
• "Interactive semantic feedback for intuitive ontology authoring" - Talk by Ronald Denaux at the 7th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2012), July 24-27, 2012, Graz, Austria (presenting the work on ROO and DON). [slides]
• "The Dicode project" - Talk by Nikos Karacapilidis at the ECML PKDD 2012 Workshop on Mining and Exploiting Interpretable Local Patterns (I-Pat 2012), Bristol, UK, September 28, 2012.
• “Mastering Data-Intensive Collaboration and Decision Making” - Keynote Talk by Nikos Karacapilidis at KEOD 2013 (5th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development), 22 September 2013, Vilamoura, Portugal.
• “The Bumpy Ride of Engineering Innovative Intelligent Systems to Augment Human Practice” - Keynote Talk by Vania Dimitrova at the 7th International Conference on Software Engineering, 15-17 November 2013, Pune, India.
• “Semantic-enriched intelligent support to make sense of social and linked data” - Tutorial by Dhaval Thakker and Vania Dimitrova at the 7th International Conference on Software Engineering, 15-17 November 2013, Pune, India (presenting the Dicode semantic services).

Prototypes and Source Code

• Dicode source code repository (WP3/NEO): http://code.google.com/p/dicode/, https://github.com/dicode-project/
• DON (Dicode ONtology): https://sites.google.com/site/ontomatic/don
• Dicode Community Modelling Resource: https://www.dicode-project.cti.gr/index.php?q=node/48
• Dicode Workbench: http://hodgkin.dia.fi.upm.es:8080/dicode
• Dicode source code repository (WP4): https://devel-dek.cti.gr/svn/ftel/dicode/trunk
• CommBAT (Community Behaviour Analytics Tool) (WP4): https://sites.google.com/site/commbatwiki
• MusicPinta prototype (WP3 & WP5): http://imash.leeds.ac.uk/services/pinta/app/
• Pinta signposting codes (WP3 & WP5) : https://sourceforge.net/projects/pinta/
• ROO Rabbit to OWL Ontology construction (WP5): http://sourceforge.net/projects/confluence/
• Entendre (WP5): http://sourceforge.net/projects/entendre/
• Perico dialogue (WP5): http://sourceforge.net/projects/perico/

Contributions to Free Software Projects

• MAHOUT-560 improved extendibility of Apache Mahout with respect to text processing for co-location analysis and LDA.
• MAHOUT-595 improved deployment of Mahout artifacts (now also include reference to source and JavaDoc).
• MAHOUT-590 adds TSV (Tab Separate Value) input file support to SequenceFilesFromDirectory.
• Wikipedia Statistics for Named Entity Recognition: https://github.com/dicode-project/pignlproc/blob/master/examples/nerd-st...
• Added Slicing to DataCube (HBase based OLAP cube): https://github.com/dicode-project/datacube, https://github.com/urbanairship/datacube/pull/36

Other Material

• The DICODE project flyer (brochure) introduces the project's goals and partners.