Convenient, Communitarian, Interactive & Media Rich Collections

Mining Networked Media Collections

Multimedia data collections immersed into social networks may be explored from the point of view of varying documents and users characteristics. In this paper, we develop a unified model to embed documents, concepts and users into coherent structures from which to extract optimal subsets and to diffuse information. The result is the definition information propagation strategies and of active gu...

Exploring Large Media Collections

Interactive Storytelling over Document Collections

Storytelling algorithms aim to ‘connect the dots’ between disparate documents by linking starting and ending documents through a series of intermediate documents. Existing storytelling algorithms are based on notions of coherence and connectivity, and thus the primary way by which users can steer the story construction is via design of suitable similarity functions. We present an alternative ap...

Communitarian versus Universalistic Norms ∗

The celebration of communitarianism by political philosophers (Sandel, M. 1982 Liberalism and the Limits of Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) has apparently been extended to strategic analyses of ascriptively attuned norms (Fearon, J. and D. Laitin. 1996. “Explaining Interethnic Cooperation.” American Political Science Review 90: 715–735) — an intriguing development, given game th...

MONA – Interactive manipulation of molecule collections

: Working with small-molecule datasets is a routine task for cheminformaticians and chemists. The analysis and comparison of vendor catalogues and the compilation of promising candidates as starting points for screening campaigns are but a few very common applications. The workflows applied for this purpose usually consist of multiple basic cheminformatics tasks such as checking for duplicates ...