Department of Informatics
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Greece
: manolopo@csd.auth.gr
: http://delab.csd.auth.gr/~manolopo/

Keynote Title:
Predicting the future evolution of scientific output

Abstract:
In the past decade various efforts have been made to quantify scientific impact and in particular identify the mechanisms in play that influence its future evolution. The first step in this process is the identification of what constitutes scholarly impact and how it is measured. In this direction, various approaches focus on future citation count or h-index prediction, either at author or publication level, on fitting the distribution of citation accumulation or accurately identifying award winners, upcoming hot topics in research or academic rising stars. A plethora of different features have been contemplated as possible influential factors in this process and assorted machine-learning methodologies have been adopted to ensure timely and accurate estimations. In the present work, we provide an overview of the challenges rising in the field and a taxonomy of the existing approaches to identify the open issues that are yet to be addressed.

Short Bio:
Yannis Manolopoulos is Professor with the Department of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has been with the University of Toronto, the University of Maryland at College Park and the University of Cyprus. He has also served as Rector of the University of Western Macedonia in Greece, Head of his own department, and Vice-Chair of the Greek Computer Society. His research interest focuses in Data Management. He has co-authored 5 monographs published by Springer and Kluwer, and 8 textbooks in Greek, as well as >300 journal and conference papers. He has received >11.000 citations from >1700 distinct academic institutions (h-index=49). He has also received 4 best paper awards from SIGMOD, ECML/PKDD, MEDES and ISSPIT conferences and has been invited as keynote speaker in 13 international events. He has served as main co-organizer of several major conferences (among others): ADBIS 2002, SSTD 2003, SSDBM 2004, ICEIS 2006, EANN 2007, ICANN 2010, AIAI 2012, WISE 2013, CAISE 2014, MEDI 2015, ICCCI 2016, TPDL 2017, DAMDID 2017. He has also acted as evaluator for funding agencies in Austria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, EU, Hong-Kong, Georgia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Poland and Russia. Currently, he serves in the Editorial Boards of (among others) The VLDB Journal, The World Wide Web Journal, The Computer Journal.