Scientific Publications

@inproceedings{Blazevic2021,

title = {Visual Analytics and Similarity Search - Interest-based Similarity Search in Scientific Data},

author = {Midhad Blazevic and Lennart B. Sina and Dirk Burkhardt and Melanie Siegel and Kawa Nazemi},

url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2021iV.pdf, Paper as PDF},

doi = {10.1109/IV53921.2021.00041},

isbn = {978-1-6654-3827-8},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-10-28},

urldate = {2021-10-28},

booktitle = {2021 25th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)},

pages = {211-217},

publisher = {IEEE},

address = {New York, USA},

abstract = {Visual Analytics enables solving complex analytical tasks by coupling interactive visualizations and machine learning approaches. Besides the analytical reasoning enabled through Visual Analytics, the exploration of data plays an essential role. The exploration process can be supported through similaritybased approaches that enable finding similar data to those annotated in the context of visual exploration. We propose in this paper a process of annotation in the context of exploration that leads to labeled vectors-of-interest and enables finding similar publications based on interest vectors. The generation and labeling of the interest vectors are performed automatically by the Visual Analytics system and lead to finding similar papers and categorizing the annotated papers. With this approach, we provide a categorized similarity search based on an automatically labeled interest matrix in Visual Analytics.},

keywords = {Collaborative Systems, iV, Similarity, Trend Analytics, Visual Analytics, Visual Business Analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Burkhardt2020b,

title = {Innovations in Mobility and Logistics: Assistance of Complex Analytical Processes in Visual Trend Analytics},

author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Kawa Nazemi and Egils Ginters},

editor = {Janis Grabis and Andrejs Romanovs and Galina Kulesova},

url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020itms-ii.pdf, Paper as PDF},

doi = {10.1109/ITMS51158.2020.9259309},

isbn = {978-1-7281-9105-8},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-11-19},

booktitle = {2020 61st International Scientific Conference on Information Technology and Management Science of Riga Technical University (ITMS)},

pages = {1-6},

publisher = {IEEE},

abstract = {A variety of new technologies and ideas for businesses are arising in the domain of logistics and mobility. It can be differentiated between fundamental new approaches, e.g. central packaging stations or deliveries via drones and minor technological advancements that aim on more ecologically and economic transportation. The 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 is growing. The users’ behavior is commonly investigated in adaptive systems, which is considering the induvial preferences of users, but neglecting often the tasks and goals of the analysis. A process-related supports could assist to solve an analytical task in a more efficient and effective way. We introduce in this paper an approach that enables non-professionals to perform visual trend analysis through an advanced process assistance based on process mining and visual adaptation. This allows generating a process model based on events, which is the baseline for process support feature calculation. These features in form of visual adaptations and the process model enable assisting non-experts in complex analytical tasks.},

keywords = {Adaptive Visualization, Logistics, Process Mining, Transportation, Trend Analytics, Visual Analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Aizstrauts2020b,

title = {On Microservice Architecture Based Communication Environment for Cycling Map Developing and Maintenance Simulator},

author = {Artis Aizstrauts and Dirk Burkhardt and Egils Ginters and Kawa Nazemi},

editor = {Janis Grabis and Andrejs Romanovs and Galina Kulesova},

url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020itms-iii.pdf, Paper as PDF},

doi = {10.1109/ITMS51158.2020.9259299},

isbn = {978-1-7281-9105-8},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-11-19},

booktitle = {2020 61st International Scientific Conference on Information Technology and Management Science of Riga Technical University (ITMS)},

pages = {1-4},

publisher = {IEEE},

abstract = {Urban transport infrastructure nowadays involves environmentally friendly modes of transport, the most democratic of which is cycling. Citizens will use bicycles if a reasonably designed cycle path scheme will be provided. Cyclists also need to know the characteristics and load of the planned route before the trip. Prediction can be provided by simulation, but it is often necessary to use heterogeneous and distributed models that require a specific communication environment to ensure interaction. The article describes the easy communication environment that is used to provide microservices communication and data exchange in a bicycle route design and maintenance multi-level simulator.},

keywords = {Easy Communication Environment, microservice architecture, Simulation},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Nazemi2020b,

title = {Visual Analytics Indicators for Mobility and Transportation},

author = {Kawa Nazemi and Matthias Kowald and Till Dannewald and Dirk Burkhardt and Egils Ginters},

editor = {Janis Grabis and Andrejs Romanovs and Galina Kulesova},

url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020itms-i.pdf, Paper as PDF},

doi = {10.1109/ITMS51158.2020.9259321},

isbn = {978-1-7281-9105-8},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-11-19},

booktitle = {2020 61st International Scientific Conference on Information Technology and Management Science of Riga Technical University (ITMS)},

pages = {1-6},

publisher = {IEEE},

abstract = {Visual Analytics enables a deep analysis of complex and multivariate data by applying machine learning methods and interactive visualization. These complex analyses lead to gain insights and knowledge for a variety of analytics tasks to enable the decision-making process. The enablement of decision-making processes is essential for managing and planning mobility and transportation. These are influenced by a variety of indicators such as new technological developments, ecological and economic changes, political decisions and in particular humans’ mobility behaviour. New technologies will lead to a different mobility behaviour with other constraints. These changes in mobility behaviour require analytical systems to forecast the required information and probably appearing changes. These systems must consider different perspectives and employ multiple indicators. Visual Analytics enable such analytical tasks. We introduce in this paper the main indicators for Visual Analytics for mobility and transportation that are exemplary explained through two case studies.},

keywords = {mobility analytics, mobility behaviour, mobility indicators for visual analytics, Visual Analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Below2020,

title = {A Future Prospect for European Collaboration on Advanced Analytics in Economy and Society},

author = {Nicola Below and Dirk Burkhardt and Lukas Kaupp and Kawa Nazemi},

editor = {Haithem Afli and Udo Bleimann and Dirk Burkhardt and Robert Loew and Stefanie Regier and Ingo Stengel and Haiying Wang and Huiru (Jane) Zheng},

url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020cerc-ii.pdf, Paper as PDF 

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2815/CERC2020_paper27.pdf, Paper on CEUR-WS 

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2815/, Proceedings on CEUR-WS},

issn = {1613-0073},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-09-11},

urldate = {2020-09-11},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC 2020)},

volume = {Vol. 2815},

pages = {414-426},

publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},

address = {Aachen, Germany},

series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},

abstract = {Analytical Reasoning by applying machine learning approaches, artificial intelligence, NLP and visualizations allow to get deep insights into the different domains of various stakeholders and enable to solve complex tasks. Thereby the tasks are very heterogenous and subject of investigation in the different areas of application. These tasks or challenges should be defined by the stakeholders themselves and lead through a deep investigation to advanced analytical approaches. We therefore set up a strategic alliance of research, enterprises and societal organization with the goal of a strong collaboration to identify in a first step these challenges and workout technological solutions for each application scenario. We give in this paper a first draft of current challenges and technological advancements. The main contribution of this paper is next to an accurate description of the current challenges in the analytics domain, also the description of an agenda how these challenges can be solved. Furthermore, a process is explained, how the strategic alliance should act and organize their work to realize beneficial and useful analytical solutions.},

note = {urn:nbn:de:0074-2815-0},

keywords = {Business Intelligence, CERC, European network, research collaboration, strategic management, Trend Analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Sina2020,

title = {Visual Dashboards in Trend Analytics to Observe Competitors and Leading Domain Experts},

author = {Lennart Sina and Dirk Burkhardt and Kawa Nazemi},

editor = {Haithem Afli and Udo Bleimann and Dirk Burkhardt and Robert Loew and Stefanie Regier and Ingo Stengel and Haiying Wang and Huiru (Jane) Zheng},

url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020cerc-ii.pdf, Paper as PDF

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2815/CERC2020_paper14.pdf, Paper on CEUR-WS

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2815/, Proceedings on CEUR-WS},

issn = {1613-0073},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-09-11},

urldate = {2020-09-11},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Collaborative European Research Conference (CERC 2020)},

volume = {Vol. 2815},

pages = {222-235},

publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},

address = {Aachen, Germany},

series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},

abstract = {The rapid change due to digitalization challenge a variety of market players and force them to find strategies to be aware of developments in these markets, particularly those that impact their business. The main challenge is what a practical solution could look like and how technology can support market players in these trend observation tasks. The paper outlines therefore a technological solution to observe specific authors e.g. researchers who influence a certain market or engineers of competitors. In many branches both are well-known groups to market players and there is almost always the need of a technology that supports the topical observation. This paper focuses on the concept of how a visual dashboard could enable a market observation and how data must be processed for it and its prototypical implementation which enables an evaluation later. Furthermore, the definition of a principal technological analysis for innovation and technology management is created and is also an important contribution to the scientific community that specifically considers the technology perspective and its corresponding requirements.},

note = {urn:nbn:de:0074-2815-0},

keywords = {Business Intelligence, CERC, Information Exploration, Innovation Management, Visual Analytics, Visual Trend Analysis},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Nazemi2020c,

title = {Comparison of Full-text Articles and Abstracts for Visual Trend Analytics through Natural Language Processing},

author = {Kawa Nazemi and Maike J. Klepsch and Dirk Burkhardt and Lukas Kaupp},

url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2020iv.pdf, Paper as PDF},

doi = {10.1109/IV51561.2020.00065},

isbn = {978-1-7281-9134-8},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-09-01},

urldate = {2020-09-01},

booktitle = {2020 24th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)},

pages = {360-367},

publisher = {IEEE},

address = {New York, USA},

abstract = {Scientific publications are an essential resource for detecting emerging trends and innovations in a very early stage, by far earlier than patents may allow. Thereby Visual Analytics systems enable a deep analysis by applying commonly unsupervised machine learning methods and investigating a mass amount of data. A main question from the Visual Analytics viewpoint in this context is, do abstracts of scientific publications provide a similar analysis capability compared to their corresponding full-texts? This would allow to extract a mass amount of text documents in a much faster manner. We compare in this paper the topic extraction methods LSI and LDA by using full text articles and their corresponding abstracts to obtain which method and which data are better suited for a Visual Analytics system for Technology and Corporate Foresight. Based on a easy replicable natural language processing approach, we further investigate the impact of lemmatization for LDA and LSI. The comparison will be performed qualitative and quantitative to gather both, the human perception in visual systems and coherence values. Based on an application scenario a visual trend analytics system illustrates the outcomes.},

keywords = {Data Science, iV, Natural Language Processing, Visual Analytics, Visual Trend Analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Nazemi2020,

title = {Visual Analytics in Mobility, Transportation and Logistics},

author = {Kawa Nazemi and Dirk Burkhardt and Lukas Kaupp and Till Dannewald and Matthias Kowald and Egils Ginters},

editor = {Egils Ginters and Mario Arturo Ruiz Estrada and Miquel Angel Piera Eroles},

url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2019icte-i.pdf, Paper as PDF},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-39688-6_12},

isbn = {978-3-030-39688-6},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-31},

booktitle = {ICTE in Transportation and Logistics 2019},

pages = {82--89},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

abstract = {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.},

keywords = {Data Analytics, Mobility Behavior, Visual Analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Burkhardt2020,

title = {Process Support and Visual Adaptation to Assist Visual Trend Analytics in Managing Transportation Innovations},

author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Kawa Nazemi and Egils Ginters},

editor = {Egils Ginters and Mario Arturo Ruiz Estrada and Miquel Angel Piera Eroles},

url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2019icte-ii.pdf, Paper as PDF},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-39688-6_40},

isbn = {978-3-030-39688-6},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-31},

booktitle = {ICTE in Transportation and Logistics 2019},

pages = {319--327},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

abstract = {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.},

keywords = {Adaptive Visualization, Process Mining, Transportation and Logistics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Ginters2020,

title = {Bicycle Path Network Designing and Exploitation Simulation as a Microservice Architecture},

author = {Artis Aizstrauts and Egils Ginters and Dirk Burkhardt and Kawa Nazemi},

editor = {Egils Ginters and Mario Arturo Ruiz Estrada and Miquel Angel Piera Eroles},

url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020icte-iii.pdf, Paper as PDF},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-39688-6_43},

isbn = {978-3-030-39688-6},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {ICTE in Transportation and Logistics 2019},

pages = {344--351},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

abstract = {Simulation is recognized as a suitable tool for sociotechnical systems research. But the variety and complexity of sociotechnical systems often leads to the need for distributed simulation solutions to understand them. Models that are built for infrastructure planning are typical examples. They combine different domains and involve variety of simulation approaches. This article proposes an easy management environment that is used for VeloRouter software -- a multi agent-based bicycle path network and exploitation simulator that is built as a microservice architecture where each domain simulation is executed as a different microservice.},

keywords = {Bicycle path network planning, Easy Communication Environment, Sociotechnical systems simulation},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Nazemi2019c,

title = {A Visual Analytics Approach for Analyzing Technological Trends in Technology and Innovation Management},

author = {Kawa Nazemi and Dirk Burkhardt},

editor = {George Bebis and Richard Boyle and Bahram Parvin and Darko Koracin and Daniela Ushizima and Sek Chai and Shinjiro Sueda and Xin Lin and Aidong Lu and Daniel Thalmann and Chaoli Wang and Panpan Xu},

url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019isvc.pdf, Paper as PDF

https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3473065, doi:10.5281/zenodo.3473065 (Poster)},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-33723-0_23},

isbn = {978-3-030-33723-0},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-10-09},

booktitle = {Advances in Visual Computing},

pages = {283--294},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

abstract = {Visual Analytics provides with a combination of automated techniques and interactive visualizations huge analysis possibilities in technology and innovation management. Thereby not only the use of machine learning data mining methods plays an important role. Due to the high interaction capabilities, it provides a more user-centered approach, where users are able to manipulate the entire analysis process and get the most valuable information. Existing Visual Analytics systems for Trend Analytics and technology and innovation management do not really make use of this unique feature and almost neglect the human in the analysis process. Outcomes from research in information search, information visualization and technology management can lead to more sophisticated Visual Analytics systems that involved the human in the entire analysis process. We propose in this paper a new interaction approach for Visual Analytics in technology and innovation management with a special focus on technological trend analytics.},

keywords = {Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Human Factors, Human-Centered Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Intelligent Systems, maschine learning, Visual Analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Ginters2019,

title = {The Concept of Augmented Reality Application for Putting Alignment in Golf},

author = {Egils Ginters and Dirk Burkhardt and Kawa Nazemi and Yuri Merkuryev},

url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019vare-ii.pdf, Dowload as PDF},

isbn = {978-88-85741-41-6},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-09-18},

booktitle = {5th International Conference of the Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education (VARE2019)},

pages = {20--27},

publisher = {CAL-TEK SRL},

address = {Rende, Italy},

abstract = {Virtual and augmented reality (VR / AR) applications have successfully overcome the critical part of the Gartner curve. Investments are made and new products entering the economy. However, a very small percentage of society have also heard about AR glasses, mainly linking these with potential identity threats and personal data breaches. The authors dealt with the design of application of AR to improve golf skills by improving the putting technique. The above solution is complicated by requiring complex object recognition, tracking and advanced AR software designing.},

keywords = {Android, Augmented Reality, Intelligent Training, Object Tracking, Objects Recognition},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Burkhardt2019b,

title = {A Mobile Visual Analytics Approach for Instant Trend Analysis in Mobile Contexts},

author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Kawa Nazemi and Arjan Kuijper and Egils Ginters},

url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2019vare-i.pdf, Dowload as PDF},

doi = {  10.5281/zenodo.3473041},

isbn = {978-88-85741-41-6},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-09-18},

booktitle = {5th International Conference of the Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education (VARE2019)},

pages = {11--19},

publisher = {CAL-TEK SRL},

address = {Rende, Italy},

abstract = {The awareness of market trends becomes relevant for a broad number of market branches, in particular the more they are challenged by the digitalization. Trend analysis solutions help business executives identifying upcoming trends early. But solid market analysis takes their time and are often not available on consulting or strategy discussions. This circumstance often leads to unproductive debates where no clear strategy, technology etc. could be identified. Therefore, we propose a mobile visual trend analysis approach that enables a quick trend analysis to identify at least the most relevant and irrelevant aspects to focus debates on the relevant options. To enable an analysis like this, the exhausting analysis on powerful workstations with large screens has to adopted to mobile devices within a mobile behavior. Our main contribution is the therefore a new approach of a mobile knowledge cockpit, which provides different analytical visualizations within and intuitive interaction design.},

note = {Nominated for Best Paper Award},

keywords = {Business Analytics, Decision Support Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Mobile Devices, Mobile Visual Analytics, Visual Trend Analysis},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Nazemi2018b,

title = {Visual Analytics for Analyzing Technological Trends from Text},

author = {Kawa Nazemi and Dirk Burkhardt},

url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2019iV.pdf, Paper as PDF},

doi = {10.1109/IV.2019.00041},

issn = {2375-0138},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-07-02},

urldate = {2019-07-02},

booktitle = {2019 23rd International Conference Information Visualisation (iV)},

pages = {191-200},

publisher = {IEEE},

abstract = {The awareness of emerging technologies is essential for strategic decision making in enterprises. Emerging and decreasing technological trends could lead to strengthening the competitiveness and market positioning. The exploration, detection and identification of such trends can be essentially supported through information visualization, trend mining and in particular through the combination of those. Commonly, trends appear first in science and scientific documents. However, those documents do not provide sufficient information for analyzing and identifying emerging trends. It is necessary to enrich data, extract information from the integrated data, measure the gradient of trends over time and provide effective interactive visualizations. We introduce in this paper an approach for integrating, enriching, mining, analyzing, identifying and visualizing emerging trends from scientific documents. Our approach enhances the state of the art in visual trend analytics by investigating the entire analysis process and providing an approach for enabling human to explore undetected potentially emerging trends.},

note = {Best Paper Award},

keywords = {Emerging Trend Identification, Information Visualization, iV, Trend Analytics, Visual Analytics, Visual Business Analytics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}