This paper introduces a tool for Conceptual Knowledge Processing with Google. The featured prototype, called FooCA, tries to combine the advantages of two research disciplines, Web Mining and Formal Concept Analysis (FCA). Web Mining techniques are used to preprocess search results retrieved via Google, presenting the formal context in an interactive cross table. A new formal context can be ite...

May’s celebrated theoretical work of the 70’s contradicted the established paradigm by demonstrating that complexity leads to instability in biological systems. Here May’s randommatrix modelling approach is generalized to realistic large-scale webs of species interactions, be they structured by networks of competition, mutualism or both. Simple relationships are found to govern these otherwise ...

Many recent papers have investigated whether data from internet search engines such as Google can help improve nowcasts or short-term forecasts of macroeconomic variables. These papers construct variables based on Google searches and use them as explanatory variables in regression models. We add to this literature by nowcasting using dynamic model selection (DMS) methods which allow for model s...

The Google Street View technology has proven to be highly controversial. Especially in a lot of European countries – where privacy and data protection laws are far stricter than e.g. in the United States – the launch of Street View has caused many residents and citizens to issues complaints to government officials about the project thereby claiming that it is a massive intrusion upon privacy an...

This presentation considers the nature of classification and the challenges that bibliographical faces in the digital age both in library practice and in information retrieval theory. It considers fundamental questions such as “how do establish that A is a kind of X?” and “how do we distinguish good from bad classifications?” The new trend of evidence based practice (EBP) is seen as an argument...