Publications
Kovalerchuk, Răzvan Andonie Kawa Nazemi Boris (Ed.) Artificial Intelligence and Visualization: Advancing Visual Knowledge Discovery Book Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, ISSN: 1860-9503. Sina, Lennart B.; Secco, Cristian A.; Blazevic, Midhad; Nazemi, Kawa Guided Visual Analytics-A Visual Analytics Guidance Approach for Systematic Reviews in Research Book Chapter In: Kovalerchuk, Boris; Nazemi, Kawa; Andonie, Răzvan; Datia, Nuno; Banissi, Ebad (Ed.): Artificial Intelligence and Visualization: Advancing Visual Knowledge Discovery, pp. 319–343, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2024, ISBN: 978-3-031-46549-9. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Blazevic, Midhad; Sina, Lennart B.; Secco, Cristian A.; Nazemi, Kawa Integrating Machine Learning in Visual Analytics for Supporting Collaboration in Science Book Chapter In: Kovalerchuk, Boris; Nazemi, Kawa; Andonie, Răzvan; Datia, Nuno; Banissi, Ebad (Ed.): Artificial Intelligence and Visualization: Advancing Visual Knowledge Discovery, pp. 345–373, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2024, ISBN: 978-3-031-46549-9. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Blazevic, Midhad; Sina, Lennart B.; Secco, Cristian A.; Nazemi, Kawa Similarity in Visual Analytics-A Visual Analytics Approach for Finding Similar Publications Book Chapter In: Kovalerchuk, Boris; Nazemi, Kawa; Andonie, Răzvan; Datia, Nuno; Banissi, Ebad (Ed.): Artificial Intelligence and Visualization: Advancing Visual Knowledge Discovery, pp. 443–468, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2024, ISBN: 978-3-031-46549-9. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Nazemi, Kawa Artificial Intelligence in Visual Analytics Proceedings Article In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV2023), Best Paper Award, pp. 230 - 237, IEEE CPS, 2023. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Visual Analytical Reasoning, Visual analytics, Visual tasks Secco, Cristian A.; Sina, Lennart B.; Blazevic, Midhad; Nazemi, Kawa Visual Analytics for Forecasting Technological Trends from Text Proceedings Article In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV2023), pp. 251-258, IEEE CPS, 2023. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Sina, Lennart B.; Secco, Cristian A.; Blazevic, Midhad; Nazemi, Kawa Visual Analytics for Corporate Foresight - A Conceptual Approach Proceedings Article In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV2023), pp. 244-250, IEEE CPS, 2023. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Visual analytics Blazevic, Midhad; Sina, Lennart B.; Secco, Cristian A.; Nazemi, Kawa Recommendations in Visual Analytics - An Analytical Approach for Elaboration in Science Proceedings Article In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV 2023), pp. 259- 267, IEEE CPS, 2023. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Artifical Intelligence Banissi, Ebad; Siirtola, Harri; Ursyn, Anna; Pires, João Moura; Datia, Nuno; Nazemi, Kawa; Kovalerchuk, Boris; Andonie, Razvan; Nakayama, Minoru; Temperini, Marco; Sciarrone, Filippo; Nguyen, Quang Vinh; Mabakane, Mabule Samuel; Rusu, Adrian; Cvek, Urska; Trutschl, Marjan; Mueller, Heimo; Francese, Rita; Boua-li, Fatma; Venturini, Gilles (Ed.) Proceedings of 2023 27th International Conference Information Visualisation Proceedings 2023, ISBN: 979-8-3503-4161-4. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Data Science, Visual analytics, Visual Knowledge Discovery Sina, Lennart B.; Secco, Cristian A.; Blazevic, Midhad; Nazemi, Kawa Hybrid Forecasting Methods - A Systematic Review Journal Article In: Electronics, vol. 12, no. 7, 2023. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: hybrid forecsting, PRISMA study Blazevic, Midhad; Sina, Lennart B.; Secco, Cristian A.; Nazemi, Kawa Recommendation of Scientific Publications—A Real-Time Text Analysis and Publication Recommendation System Journal Article In: Electronics, vol. 12, no. 7, 2023, ISSN: 2079-9292. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: latex editor, publication recommendations, recommendation systems, similarity algorithms, topics modeling Kaupp, Lukas; Nazemi, Kawa; Humm, Bernhard Evaluation of the Flourish Dashboard for Context-Aware Fault Diagnosis in Industry 4.0 Smart Factories Journal Article In: Electronics, vol. 11, no. 23, 2022, ISSN: 2079-9292. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Case study, Data Analytics, Data Science, Data visualization, Decision Making, Decision Support Systems, Evaluation, smart factory, Smart manufacturing, Visual analytics Kaupp, Lukas; Humm, Bernhard; Nazemi, Kawa; Simons, Stephan Autoencoder-Ensemble-Based Unsupervised Selection of Production-Relevant Variables for Context-Aware Fault Diagnosis Journal Article In: Sensors, vol. 22, no. 21, 2022, ISSN: 1424-8220. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Leanring, Machine learning, smart factory, Smart manufacturing Banissi, Mark W. McK. Bannatyne Anna Ursyn Ebad; Geroimenko, Vladimir (Ed.) Proceedings of 2022 26th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV) Proceedings 2022, ISBN: 978-1-6654-9007-8. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Nazemi, Kawa; Feiter, Tim; Sina, Lennart B.; Burkhardt, Dirk; Kock, Alexander Visual Analytics for Strategic Decision Making in Technology Management Book Chapter In: Kovalerchuk, Boris; Nazemi, Kawa; Andonie, Răzvan; Datia, Nuno; Banissi, Ebad (Ed.): Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Visualization for Visual Knowledge Discovery, pp. 31–61, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-030-93119-3. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Blazevic, Midhad; Sina, Lennart B.; Nazemi, Kawa Visual Collaboration - An Approach for Visual Analytical Collaborative Research Proceedings Article In: 2022 26th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), pp. 293 - 299, IEEE, 2022. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Kaupp, Lukas; Nazemi, Kawa; Humm, Bernhard Context-Aware Diagnosis in Smart Manufacturing: TAOISM, An Industry 4.0-Ready Visual Analytics Model Book Chapter In: Kovalerchuk, Boris; Nazemi, Kawa; Andonie, Răzvan; Datia, Nuno; Banissi, Ebad (Ed.): Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Visualization for Visual Knowledge Discovery, pp. 403–436, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-030-93119-3. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Leanring, Machine learning, mobility indicators for visual analytics, smart factory, Smart manufacturing, Visual Analytical Reasoning, Visual analytics, Visual Knowledge Discovery Kovalerchuk, Boris; Nazemi, Kawa; Andonie, Răzvan; Datia, Nuno; Banissi, Ebad (Ed.) Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Visualization for Visual Knowledge Discovery Book SPRINGER NATURE, 2022, ISBN: 3030931188. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Kovalerchuk, Boris; Andonie, Răzvan; Datia, Nuno; Nazemi, Kawa; Banissi, Ebad Visual Knowledge Discovery with Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Future Directions Book Chapter In: Kovalerchuk, Boris; Nazemi, Kawa; Andonie, Răzvan; Datia, Nuno; Banissi, Ebad (Ed.): Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Visualization for Visual Knowledge Discovery, pp. 1–27, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-030-93119-3. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Kaupp, Lukas; Nazemi, Kawa; Humm, Bernhard Context-Aware Diagnosis in Smart Manufacturing: TAOISM, An Industry 4.0-Ready Visual Analytics Model Book Chapter In: Kovalerchuk, Boris; Nazemi, Kawa; Andonie, Răzvan; Datia, Nuno; Banissi, Ebad (Ed.): Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Visualization for Visual Knowledge Discovery, pp. 403–436, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-030-93119-3. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Leanring, Machine learning, mobility indicators for visual analytics, smart factory, Smart manufacturing, Visual Analytical Reasoning, Visual analytics, Visual Knowledge Discovery2024
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abstract = {Visual Analytics systems are often complex expert systems that require high expertise. The simplification of the interaction with such systems in order to make them usable for novices is one subject of current research works. One way to ease the user's interaction with the systems is through guidance approaches. Guidance approaches aim to support the user while working with the system by providing targeted assistance. We present in this work a stepwise guidance approach for Visual Analytics. For that, we use the domain of literature search and exploration exemplary. The underlying system allows researchers to visually search and explore scientific publications and automatically generate systematic review protocols. To accomplish this, we present a stepwise visual guidance system approach that combines automatic steps and manual user validation to unify the systematic literature review (SLR) creation process. Based on a design study we conducted, we present our proposed AI-based assistant (MAIA) that assists users in the various steps required to create systematic literature reviews. According to the PRISMA statement, we describe the process of SLR creation exemplary and present the different screens that guide the user through SLR creation.},
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abstract = {Studies have shown rising interest in scientific collaborations throughout the past decades. The challenges throughout various studies show an emerging need for research and development in methods and systems that utilize artificial intelligence to provide research communities with adequate tools that facilitate and encourage collaborative research. Many platforms focus on listing authors' publications and showcasing them with citation scores. They neglect the possibility of creating a holistic assistance and collaborative approach that covers the entire scientific research process using adequate intelligence methods. We introduce in this chapter a novel approach to visual collaboration. Our approach covers the entire process of scientific paper writing through real-time visual recommendations. It combines on-the-fly similarity measurements, ideation assistance based on group constellations, visual exploration, and stimuli promotion for the different stages of collaborative writing. Our research into collaborative research applications also led us to examine the adverse effects of multitasking and multi-application usage on researchers. These effects on human cognition require the integration of visual analytics that combines artificial intelligence with interactive visualizations. Thereby the interaction design and the ease of use are essential. Our approach presents a single-source AI-driven visual collaborative research platform for the entire research community.},
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abstract = {Recent studies show that the search for relevant publications requires researchers to invest a significant amount of time and work; some studies even underline that this task requires the most time and work out of all the tasks in the entire research process. To reduce the search time in the research process, we propose a visual analytics approach that combines models and methods of natural language process, machine learning, similarity measures, and interactive visual representations. The proposed approach is based on our previous works and enhances those with additional automatic assistance during the entire search process. Our visual analytics approach facilitates the presentation of large amounts of relevant results similar to the identified topics of interest and tailored to the needs of researchers during their research process. The proposed method enables annotation in the context of exploration, allowing researchers to quickly find and bookmark relevant publications during exploration and, by doing so, improve the publication recommendations. We analyze the annotations researchers make throughout their research journey to identify the topics of interest and use them as input for our learning and measurement methods. By utilizing researchers' commonly observed annotation and exploration behavior, our approach counters information overload by generating labeled vectors of interest and providing similar publications.},
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2023
@inproceedings{Nazemi2023,
title = {Artificial Intelligence in Visual Analytics},
author = {Kawa Nazemi},
doi = {10.1109/IV60283.2023.00048},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-11-30},
urldate = {2023-11-30},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV2023), Best Paper Award},
journal = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV2023) - Best Paper Award-},
pages = {230 - 237},
publisher = {IEEE CPS},
abstract = {Visual Analytics that combines automated methods with information visualization has emerged as a powerful approach to analytical reasoning. The integration of artificial intelligence techniques into Visual Analytics has enhanced its capabilities but also presents challenges related to interpretability, explainability, and decision-making processes. Visual Analytics may use artificial intelligence methods to provide enhanced and more powerful analytical reasoning capabilities. Furthermore, Visual Analytics can be used to interpret black-box artificial intelligence models and provide a visual explanation of those models. In this paper, we provide an overview of the state-of-the-art of artificial intelligence techniques used in Visual Analytics, focusing on both explainable artificial intelligence in Visual Analytics and the human knowledge generation process through Visual Analytics. We review explainable artificial intelligence approaches in Visual Analytics and propose a revised Visual Analytics model for Explainable artificial intelligence based on an existing model. We then conduct a screening review of artificial intelligence methods in Visual Analytics from two time periods to highlight recently used artificial intelligence approaches in Visual Analytics. Based on this review, we propose a revised task model for tasks in Visual Analytics. Our contributions include a state-of-the-art review of explainable artificial intelligence in Visual Analytics, a revised model for creating explainable artificial intelligence through Visual Analytics, a screening review of recent artificial intelligence methods in Visual Analytics, and a revised task model for generic tasks in Visual Analytics.},
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@inproceedings{Secco2023,
title = {Visual Analytics for Forecasting Technological Trends from Text},
author = {Cristian A. Secco and Lennart B. Sina and Midhad Blazevic and Kawa Nazemi},
doi = {10.1109/IV60283.2023.00051},
year = {2023},
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booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV2023)},
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publisher = {IEEE CPS},
abstract = {Knowledge of emerging and declining trends and their potential future course is highly relevant in many application domains, particularly in corporate strategy and foresight. The early awareness of trends allows reacting to market, political, and societal changes and challenges at an appropriate time. In our previous works, we presented approaches for the early identification and analysis of emerging trends. Although our previous approaches are detecting emerging trends appropriately, they lack the ability to predict the potential future course of a trend or technology. We present in this work a novel Visual Analytics approach for forecasting emerging trends that combines interactive visualizations with machine learning techniques and statistical approaches to detect, analyze, and predict trends from textual data. We extend our previous work on analyzing technological trends from text and propose an advanced approach that includes forecasting through hybrid techniques consisting of neural networks and established statistical methods. Our approach offers insights from enormous data sets and the potential future course of trends based on their occurrence in textual data. We contribute with a novel approach for identifying and forecasting trends, a hybrid forecasting method to predict trends from text, and interactive visualization techniques on
macro level, micro level, and monitoring topics of interest.},
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macro level, micro level, and monitoring topics of interest.@inproceedings{SinaIV2023,
title = {Visual Analytics for Corporate Foresight - A Conceptual Approach},
author = {Lennart B. Sina and Cristian A. Secco and Midhad Blazevic and Kawa Nazemi},
doi = {10.1109/IV60283.2023.00050},
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booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV2023)},
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abstract = {Corporate Foresight is a strategic planning process that helps organizations anticipate and prepare for future trends and developments that may impact their operations. It involves analyzing data, identifying potential scenarios, and creating strategies to address them to ensure long-term success and sustainability. Visual Analytics approaches have been introduced to cover parts of the Corporate Foresight process. These concepts present different approaches to integrate machine learning methods and artificial intelligence with interactive visualizations to solve tasks such as identifying emerging trends. A holistic concept for synthesizing Visual Analytics with Corporate Foresight does not exist yet. We propose in this work a holistic Visual Analytics approach that covers the main aspects of Corporate Foresight by including strategic management and considers different organizational forms. Our model goes beyond the state-of-the-art by providing, besides foresight also, hindsight and insight. Our main contributions are the revised Visual Analytics model and its proof of concept through implementation as a web-based system with real data.},
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@inproceedings{blaz2023,
title = {Recommendations in Visual Analytics - An Analytical Approach for Elaboration in Science},
author = {Midhad Blazevic and Lennart B. Sina and Cristian A. Secco and Kawa Nazemi},
doi = {10.1109/IV60283.2023.00052},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-11-24},
urldate = {2023-11-24},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV 2023)},
pages = {259- 267},
publisher = {IEEE CPS},
abstract = {The huge amount of scientific content increases the workload for evaluating state-of-the-art research and the complexity of creating novel and innovative methods and approaches. Although many approaches exist using recommendations in various application domains, the full potential of recommendation systems is not yet fully utilized. Particularly, there are missing approaches that combine interactive visualizations with recommendation systems to enable an analytical investigation of the current state of technology and science. We, therefore, propose in this work a novel Visual Analytics approach that integrates recommendation methods as the model and provides a seamless integration of both interactive visualizations and recommendation systems. We utilize MAE and RMSE metrics and human validation to identify the best approach out of eight approaches that differ in vectorization and similarity algorithms to recommend scientific items. We contribute novel approaches for recommending scientific publications, venues, and projects, based on comparing traditional and deep-learning-based recommendation approaches. Furthermore, we propose a Visual Analytics approach that uses recommendation methods for analytical elaboration. This work shows the potential of integrating recommendation systems into scientific research and identifies potential future directions for improving the proposed model.},
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@proceedings{Banissi2023,
title = {Proceedings of 2023 27th International Conference Information Visualisation},
editor = {Ebad Banissi and Harri Siirtola and Anna Ursyn and João Moura Pires and Nuno Datia and Kawa Nazemi and Boris Kovalerchuk and Razvan Andonie and Minoru Nakayama and Marco Temperini and Filippo Sciarrone and Quang Vinh Nguyen and Mabule Samuel Mabakane and Adrian Rusu and Urska Cvek and Marjan Trutschl and Heimo Mueller and Rita Francese and Fatma Boua-li and Gilles Venturini},
doi = {10.1109/IV60283.2023.00001},
isbn = {979-8-3503-4161-4},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-11-01},
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issue = {IV2023},
abstract = {Do aspects of our lives depend on and are driven by data, information, knowledge, user experience, and cultural influences in the current information era? Does the infrastructure of any information-dependent society rely on the quality of data, information, and analysis of such entities from past and present and projected future activities and, most importantly, how it is intended to be applied? Information Visualization, Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Application domains are state-of-the-art developments that effectively enhance understanding of these well-established drivers. Several key interdependent variables are emerging that are becoming the focus of scientific activities, such as Information and Data Science. Aspects tightly tie raw data (origin, autonomous capture, classification, incompleteness, impurity, filtering) and data scale to knowledge acquisition. Its dependencies on the application domain and its evolution steer the next generation of research activities. From raw data to knowledge, processing the relationship between these phases has added new impetus to understanding and communicating these. The tradition of use and communication by visualization is deep-rooted. It helps us investigate new meanings for the humanities, history of art, design, human factors, and user experience, leading to knowledge discoveries and hypothesis analysis. Modern-day computer-aided analytics and visualization have added momentum in developing tools that exploit metaphor-driven techniques within many applied domains to simply storytelling through data. The methods are developed beyond visualization to simplify the complexities, reveal ambiguity, and work with incompleteness. The next phase of this evolving field is to understand uncertainty, risk analysis, and tapping into unknowns; this uncertainty is built into all stages of the processes, from raw data to the knowledge acquisition stage. But there is a new twist: fast-developing generative AI with ever-increasing access to data outsmarting humans in decision-making. A new evolutionary step in the human journey, no doubt.},
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@article{SSB*23,
title = {Hybrid Forecasting Methods - A Systematic Review},
author = {Lennart B. Sina and Cristian A. Secco and Midhad Blazevic and Kawa Nazemi},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/9/2019},
doi = {10.3390/electronics12092019},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-04-27},
urldate = {2023-04-27},
journal = {Electronics},
volume = {12},
number = {7},
abstract = {Time series forecasting has been performed for decades in both science and industry. The forecasting models have evolved steadily over time. Statistical methods have been used for many years and were later complemented by neural network approaches. Currently, hybrid approaches are increasingly presented, aiming to combine both methods’ advantages. These hybrid forecasting methods could lead to more accurate predictions and enhance and improve visual analytics systems for making decisions or for supporting the decision-making process. In this work, we conducted a systematic literature review using the PRISMA methodology and investigated various hybrid forecasting approaches in detail. The exact procedure for searching and filtering and the databases in which we performed the search were documented and supplemented by a PRISMA flow chart. From a total of 1435 results, we included 21 works in this review through various filtering steps and exclusion criteria. We examined these works in detail and collected the quality of the prediction results. We summarized the error values in a table to investigate whether hybrid forecasting approaches deliver better results. We concluded that all investigated hybrid forecasting methods perform better than individual ones. Based on the results of the PRISMA study, the possible applications of hybrid prediction approaches in visual analytics systems for decision making are discussed and illustrated using an exemplary visualization.},
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@article{electronics12071699,
title = {Recommendation of Scientific Publications—A Real-Time Text Analysis and Publication Recommendation System},
author = {Midhad Blazevic and Lennart B. Sina and Cristian A. Secco and Kawa Nazemi},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/7/1699},
doi = {10.3390/electronics12071699},
issn = {2079-9292},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
urldate = {2023-01-01},
journal = {Electronics},
volume = {12},
number = {7},
abstract = {Studies have shown that although having more information improves the quality of decision-making, information overload causes adverse effects on decision quality. Visual analytics and recommendation systems counter this adverse effect on decision-making. Accurately identifying relevant information can reduce the noise during exploration and improve decision-making. These countermeasures also help scientists make correct decisions during research. We present a novel and intuitive approach that supports real-time collaboration. In this paper, we instantiate our approach to scientific writing and propose a system that supports scientists. The proposed system analyzes text as it is being written and recommends similar publications based on the written text through similarity algorithms. By analyzing text as it is being written, it is possible to provide targeted real-time recommendations to improve decision-making during research by finding relevant publications that might not have been otherwise found in the initial research phase. This approach allows the recommendations to evolve throughout the writing process, as recommendations begin on a paragraph-based level and progress throughout the entire written text. This approach yields various possible use cases discussed in our work. Furthermore, the recommendations are presented in a visual analytics system to further improve scientists’ decision-making capabilities.},
keywords = {latex editor, publication recommendations, recommendation systems, similarity algorithms, topics modeling},
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2022
@article{electronics11233942,
title = {Evaluation of the Flourish Dashboard for Context-Aware Fault Diagnosis in Industry 4.0 Smart Factories},
author = {Lukas Kaupp and Kawa Nazemi and Bernhard Humm},
editor = {Kawa Nazemi and Egils Ginters and Michael Bazant},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/23/3942},
doi = {10.3390/electronics11233942},
issn = {2079-9292},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-11-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
journal = {Electronics},
volume = {11},
number = {23},
abstract = {Cyber-physical systems become more complex, therewith production lines become more complex in the smart factory. Every employed system produces high amounts of data with unknown dependencies and relationships, making incident reasoning difficult. Context-aware fault diagnosis can unveil such relationships on different levels. A fault diagnosis application becomes context-aware when the current production situation is used in the reasoning process. We have already published TAOISM, a visual analytics model defining the context-aware fault diagnosis process for the Industry 4.0 domain. In this article, we propose the Flourish dashboard for context-aware fault diagnosis. The eponymous visualization Flourish is a first implementation of a context-displaying visualization for context-aware fault diagnosis in an Industry 4.0 setting. We conducted a questionnaire and interview-based bilingual evaluation with two user groups based on contextual faults recorded in a production-equal smart factory. Both groups provided qualitative feedback after using the Flourish dashboard. We positively evaluate the Flourish dashboard as an essential part of the context-aware fault diagnosis and discuss our findings, open gaps, and future research directions.},
keywords = {Artificial Intelligence, Case study, Data Analytics, Data Science, Data visualization, Decision Making, Decision Support Systems, Evaluation, smart factory, Smart manufacturing, Visual analytics},
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@article{s22218259,
title = {Autoencoder-Ensemble-Based Unsupervised Selection of Production-Relevant Variables for Context-Aware Fault Diagnosis},
author = {Lukas Kaupp and Bernhard Humm and Kawa Nazemi and Stephan Simons},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/21/8259},
doi = {10.3390/s22218259},
issn = {1424-8220},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-10-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
journal = {Sensors},
volume = {22},
number = {21},
abstract = {Smart factories are complex; with the increased complexity of employed cyber-physical systems, the complexity evolves further. Cyber-physical systems produce high amounts of data that are hard to capture and challenging to analyze. Real-time recording of all data is not possible due to limited network capabilities. Limited network capabilities are the reason for a chain of faults introduced via active surveillance during fault diagnosis. These introduced faults may slow down production or lead to an outage of the production line. Here, we present a novel approach to automatically select production-relevant shop floor parameters to decrease the number of surveyed variables and, at the same time, maintain quality in fault diagnosis without overloading the network. We were able to achieve higher throughput, mitigate communication losses and prevent the disruption of factory instructions. Our approach uses an autoencoder ensemble via minority voting to differentiate between normal—always on—variables and production variables that may yield a higher entropy. Our approach has been tested in a production-equal smart factory and was cross-validated by a domain expert.},
keywords = {Artificial Intelligence, Machine Leanring, Machine learning, smart factory, Smart manufacturing},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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@proceedings{nokey,
title = {Proceedings of 2022 26th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)},
editor = {Mark W. McK. Bannatyne Anna Ursyn Ebad Banissi and Vladimir Geroimenko},
doi = {10.1109/IV56949.2022.00001},
isbn = {978-1-6654-9007-8},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-08-08},
urldate = {2022-08-08},
abstract = {Most aspects of our lives depend on and are driven by data, information, knowledge, user experience, and cultural influences in the current information era. The infrastructure of any information-dependent society relies on the quality of data, information, and analysis of such entities from past and present and projected future activities in addition and possibly most importantly, how it is intended to be applied. Information Visualization, Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Application domains are just a few state-of-the-art developments that effectively enhance understanding of these driving forces. Several key interdependent variables are emerging that are becoming the focus of scientific activities, such as Information and Data Science. Aspects tightly tie raw data (origin, autonomous capture, classification, incompleteness, impurity, filtering) and data scale to knowledge acquisition. Its dependencies on the application domain and its evolution steer the next generation of research activities. From the raw data to knowledge, processing the relationship between these phases has added new impetus to how these are understood and communicated. The tradition of use and communication by visualization is deep-rooted. It helps us investigate new meanings for the humanities, history of art, design, human factors, and user experience, leading to discoveries and hypothesis analysis. Modern-day computer-aided analytics and visualization have added momentum in developing tools that exploit metaphor-driven techniques within many applied domains. The methods are developed beyond visualization to simplify the complexities, reveal ambiguity, and work with incompleteness. The next phase of this evolving field is to understand uncertainty, risk analysis, and tapping into unknowns; this uncertainty is built into all stages of the process, from raw data to the knowledge acquisition stage.
This collection of papers on this year's information visualization forum, compiled for the 26th conference on the Information Visualization incorporating the following: Artificial Intelligence – analytics, machine-, deep-learning, and Learning Analytics - IV2021, advocates that a new conceptual framework will emerge from information-rich disciplines like the Humanities, Psychology, Sociology, Business of everyday activities as well as the science-rich disciplines. To facilitate this, IV2022 provides the opportunity to resonate with many international and collaborative research projects, lectures, and panel discussions from distinguished speakers that channel the way this new framework conceptually and practically has been realized. This year's theme is enhanced further by AI, Social Networking impact on the social, cultural, and heritage aspects of life, and learning analysis of today's multifaceted and data-rich environment.
Joining us in this search are some 75-plus researchers who reflect and share a chapter of their thoughts with fellow researchers. The papers collected, peer-reviewed by the international reviewing committee, reflect the vibrant state of information visualization, analytics, applications, and results of researchers, artists, and professionals from more than 25 countries. It has allowed us to address the
scope of visualization from a much broader perspective. Each contributor to this conference has added fresh views and thoughts that challenge our beliefs and further encourage our adventure of innovation.},
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This collection of papers on this year's information visualization forum, compiled for the 26th conference on the Information Visualization incorporating the following: Artificial Intelligence – analytics, machine-, deep-learning, and Learning Analytics - IV2021, advocates that a new conceptual framework will emerge from information-rich disciplines like the Humanities, Psychology, Sociology, Business of everyday activities as well as the science-rich disciplines. To facilitate this, IV2022 provides the opportunity to resonate with many international and collaborative research projects, lectures, and panel discussions from distinguished speakers that channel the way this new framework conceptually and practically has been realized. This year's theme is enhanced further by AI, Social Networking impact on the social, cultural, and heritage aspects of life, and learning analysis of today's multifaceted and data-rich environment.
Joining us in this search are some 75-plus researchers who reflect and share a chapter of their thoughts with fellow researchers. The papers collected, peer-reviewed by the international reviewing committee, reflect the vibrant state of information visualization, analytics, applications, and results of researchers, artists, and professionals from more than 25 countries. It has allowed us to address the
scope of visualization from a much broader perspective. Each contributor to this conference has added fresh views and thoughts that challenge our beliefs and further encourage our adventure of innovation.@inbook{Nazemi2022,
title = {Visual Analytics for Strategic Decision Making in Technology Management},
author = {Kawa Nazemi and Tim Feiter and Lennart B. Sina and Dirk Burkhardt and Alexander Kock},
editor = {Boris Kovalerchuk and Kawa Nazemi and Răzvan Andonie and Nuno Datia and Ebad Banissi},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93119-3_2},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-93119-3_2},
isbn = {978-3-030-93119-3},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Visualization for Visual Knowledge Discovery},
pages = {31--61},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {Strategic foresight, corporate foresight, and technology management enable firms to detect discontinuous changes early and develop future courses for a more sophisticated market positioning. The enhancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence allow more automatic detection of early trends to create future courses and make strategic decisions. Visual Analytics combines methods of automated data analysis through machine learning methods and interactive visualizations. It enables a far better way to gather insights from a vast amount of data to make a strategic decision. While Visual Analytics got various models and approaches to enable strategic decision-making, the analysis of trends is still a matter of research. The forecasting approaches and involvement of humans in the visual trend analysis process require further investigation that will lead to sophisticated analytical methods. We introduce in this paper a novel model of Visual Analytics for decision-making, particularly for technology management, through early trends from scientific publications. We combine Corporate Foresight and Visual Analytics and propose a machine learning-based Technology Roadmapping based on our previous work.},
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@inproceedings{BSN22,
title = {Visual Collaboration - An Approach for Visual Analytical Collaborative Research},
author = {Midhad Blazevic and Lennart B. Sina and Kawa Nazemi},
doi = {10.1109/IV56949.2022.00057},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {2022 26th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)},
pages = {293 - 299},
publisher = {IEEE},
abstract = {Studies have shown that collaboration in scientific fields is rising and considered enormously important. However, collaboration has proved to be challenging for various reasons, among others, the requirements for human-machine workflows. The importance of scientific collaboration lies in the complexity of the challenges that are faced today. The more complex the challenge, the more scientists should work together. The current form of collaboration in the scientific community is not as intelligent as it should be. Scientists have to multitask with various applications, often losing cognitive focus. Collaboration itself is very nearsighted as it is usually conducted not solely based on expertise but instead on social or local networks. We introduce a single-source visual collaboration approach based on learning methods in this work. We use machine learning and natural language processing approaches to improve the traditional research and development process and create a system that facilitates and encourages collaboration based on expertise, enhancing the research collaboration process in many ways. Our approach combines collaborative Visual Analytics with enhanced collaboration techniques to support researchers from different disciplines.},
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@inbook{Kaupp2022b,
title = {Context-Aware Diagnosis in Smart Manufacturing: TAOISM, An Industry 4.0-Ready Visual Analytics Model},
author = {Lukas Kaupp and Kawa Nazemi and Bernhard Humm},
editor = {Boris Kovalerchuk and Kawa Nazemi and Răzvan Andonie and Nuno Datia and Ebad Banissi},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-93119-3_16},
isbn = {978-3-030-93119-3},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Visualization for Visual Knowledge Discovery},
pages = {403–436},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {The integration of cyber-physical systems accelerates Industry 4.0. Smart factories become more and more complex, with novel connections, relationships, and dependencies. Consequently, complexity also rises with the vast amount of data. While acquiring data from all the involved systems and protocols remains challenging, the assessment and reasoning of information are complex for tasks like fault detection and diagnosis. Furthermore, through the risen complexity of smart manufacturing, the diagnosis process relies even more on the current situation, the context. Current Visual Analytics models prevail only a vague definition of context. This chapter presents an updated and extended version of the TAOISM Visual Analytics model based on our previous work. The model defines the context in smart manufacturing that enables context-aware diagnosis and analysis. Additionally, we extend our model in contrast to our previous work with context hierarchies, an applied use case on open-source data, transformation strategies, an algorithm to acquire context information automatically and present a concept of context-based information aggregation as well as a test of context-aware diagnosis with latest advances in neural networks. We fuse methodologies, algorithms, and specifications of both vital research fields, Visual Analytics and Smart Manufacturing, together with our previous findings to build a living Visual Analytics model open for future research.},
keywords = {Artificial Intelligence, Machine Leanring, Machine learning, mobility indicators for visual analytics, smart factory, Smart manufacturing, Visual Analytical Reasoning, Visual analytics, Visual Knowledge Discovery},
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@book{2022,
title = {Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Visualization for Visual Knowledge Discovery},
editor = {Boris Kovalerchuk and Kawa Nazemi and Răzvan Andonie and Nuno Datia and Ebad Banissi},
url = {https://link.springer.com/book/9783030931186, Springer Link},
isbn = {3030931188},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
publisher = {SPRINGER NATURE},
series = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
abstract = {This book is devoted to the emerging field of integrated visual knowledge discovery that combines advances in artificial intelligence/machine learning and visualization/visual analytic. A long-standing challenge of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is explaining models to humans, especially for live-critical applications like health care. A model explanation is fundamentally human activity, not only an algorithmic one. As current deep learning studies demonstrate, it makes the paradigm based on the visual methods critically important to address this challenge. In general, visual approaches are critical for discovering explainable high-dimensional patterns in all types in high-dimensional data offering "n-D glasses," where preserving high-dimensional data properties and relations in visualizations is a major challenge. The current progress opens a fantastic opportunity in this domain.
This book is a collection of 25 extended works of over 70 scholars presented at AI and visual analytics related symposia at the recent International Information Visualization Conferences with the goal of moving this integration to the next level. The sections of this book cover integrated systems, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, optimization, and evaluation of visualizations.
The intended audience for this collection includes those developing and using emerging AI/machine learning and visualization methods. Scientists, practitioners, and students can find multiple examples of the current integration of AI/machine learning and visualization for visual knowledge discovery. The book provides a vision of future directions in this domain. New researchers will find here an inspiration to join the profession and to be involved for further development. Instructors in AI/ML and visualization classes can use it as a supplementary source in their undergraduate and graduate classes.},
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This book is a collection of 25 extended works of over 70 scholars presented at AI and visual analytics related symposia at the recent International Information Visualization Conferences with the goal of moving this integration to the next level. The sections of this book cover integrated systems, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, optimization, and evaluation of visualizations.
The intended audience for this collection includes those developing and using emerging AI/machine learning and visualization methods. Scientists, practitioners, and students can find multiple examples of the current integration of AI/machine learning and visualization for visual knowledge discovery. The book provides a vision of future directions in this domain. New researchers will find here an inspiration to join the profession and to be involved for further development. Instructors in AI/ML and visualization classes can use it as a supplementary source in their undergraduate and graduate classes.@inbook{Kovalerchuk2022b,
title = {Visual Knowledge Discovery with Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Future Directions},
author = {Boris Kovalerchuk and Răzvan Andonie and Nuno Datia and Kawa Nazemi and Ebad Banissi},
editor = {Boris Kovalerchuk and Kawa Nazemi and Răzvan Andonie and Nuno Datia and Ebad Banissi},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93119-3_1},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-93119-3_1},
isbn = {978-3-030-93119-3},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Visualization for Visual Knowledge Discovery},
pages = {1--27},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods with interactive visualization is a research area that has evolved for years. With the rise of AI applications, the combination of AI/ML and interactive visualization is elevated to new levels of sophistication and has become more widespread in many domains. Such application drive has led to a growing trend to bridge the gap between AI/ML and visualizations. This chapter summarizes the current research trend and provides foresight to future research direction in integrating AI/ML and visualization. It investigates different areas of integrating the named disciplines, starting with visualization in ML, visual analytics, visual-enabled machine learning, natural language processing, and multidimensional visualization and AI to illustrate the research trend towards visual knowledge discovery. Each section of this chapter presents the current research state along with problem statements or future directions that allow a deeper investigation of seamless integration of novel AI methods in interactive visualizations.},
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@inbook{Kaupp2022,
title = {Context-Aware Diagnosis in Smart Manufacturing: TAOISM, An Industry 4.0-Ready Visual Analytics Model},
author = {Lukas Kaupp and Kawa Nazemi and Bernhard Humm},
editor = {Boris Kovalerchuk and Kawa Nazemi and Răzvan Andonie and Nuno Datia and Ebad Banissi},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93119-3_16},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-93119-3_16},
isbn = {978-3-030-93119-3},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Visualization for Visual Knowledge Discovery},
pages = {403--436},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
address = {Cham},
abstract = {The integration of cyber-physical systems accelerates Industry 4.0. Smart factories become more and more complex, with novel connections, relationships, and dependencies. Consequently, complexity also rises with the vast amount of data. While acquiring data from all the involved systems and protocols remains challenging, the assessment and reasoning of information are complex for tasks like fault detection and diagnosis. Furthermore, through the risen complexity of smart manufacturing, the diagnosis process relies even more on the current situation, the context. Current Visual Analytics models prevail only a vague definition of context. This chapter presents an updated and extended version of the TAOISM Visual Analytics model based on our previous work. The model defines the context in smart manufacturing that enables context-aware diagnosis and analysis. Additionally, we extend our model in contrast to our previous work with context hierarchies, an applied use case on open-source data, transformation strategies, an algorithm to acquire context information automatically and present a concept of context-based information aggregation as well as a test of context-aware diagnosis with latest advances in neural networks. We fuse methodologies, algorithms, and specifications of both vital research fields, Visual Analytics and Smart Manufacturing, together with our previous findings to build a living Visual Analytics model open for future research.},
keywords = {Artificial Intelligence, Machine Leanring, Machine learning, mobility indicators for visual analytics, smart factory, Smart manufacturing, Visual Analytical Reasoning, Visual analytics, Visual Knowledge Discovery},
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