GRAPH-BASED VISUALIZATION LAYOUTS TECHNIQUES

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Harvard Catalyst Profile

Harvard catalyst profile provides a web based tool which helps the researchers to search for the collaborators or mentors. Using this secure web-based environment helps the researchers to collaborate and share their work. Harvard catalyst profile system contains several researchers’ profiles in different areas of research. Users can search these profiles in many ways e.g. search by key words, by name, by institution etc. By considering the Harvard catalyst profiles following components have been identified [25]:
 Personal / Contact Information: This is the information about an identifiable individual that describes about the person, this information may include the title, institution, department, address, phone no, fax no, email etc.
 Concepts: Concepts are those terms or keywords that are derived from the researcher’s publications. Concepts provide the general overview of the researcher’s research areas.
 Co-Authors: List of the people in profiles who have published with this person. This shows the collaboration of a person with other authors.
 Publications: Researcher’s written contribution in the field of research. List showing the publications published by the researcher.  Similar People: Suggested people who share similar concepts with this person.  Same Department: People who are also in the person’s primary department.  Physical Neighbors: People located nearby this person.

Research Methods

Research methods are the various steps or procedures that are followed by the researcher to bring out the solution during the research. It is considered to be the most important part of a research, as the results and success of the study is determined by these methods. So an appropriate method has to be followed to bring out the managed research. Below mentioned is the detail of the research method that is going to be followed to bring out the solution for how an ontology-based researcher’s competence profiles be demonstrated based on the visualization techniques for the purpose of ―research collaboration‖.

Research Design and Strategy

According to [20] research design is basically an overall plan that is going to be followed to bring out the answers to the identified research problem. Research design provides a way that how to collect the data and to analyze it. Research design relates the research problem to the empirical research. Structure of the research problem varies and based on this variation of problem structure research method is classified in to three main categories, i.e. Exploratory research, descriptive research and causal research [20].
Exploratory Research: An exploratory research is considered to be appropriate when according to [20] the research problem is not properly understood or in other words real scope of the problem is not clear. Exploratory research provides the researcher with the familiarization of the research problem. This research depends upon the secondary data sources i.e. literature review or the qualitative data, so literature search is done or in some cases depending on the nature of search focus group is interviewed. This provides the research with better understanding about the problem. This type of research approach might provide the exact answer to the highlighted issues. Exploratory research results by providing important insight into a given problem. Causal or explanatory research [21] basically makes it clear that how a relationship between two variables exist.

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1 Introduction
1.1 BACKGROUND
1.2 PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES
1.3 LIMITATIONS
1.4 THESIS OUTLINE..
2 Theoretical Background .
2.1 ONTOLOGY
2.2 COMPETENCE PROFILES
2.3 GRAPH 2.4 VISUALIZATION
2.5 VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES CATEGORIZATION
2.6 NON GRAPH-BASED VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES
2.7 GRAPH-BASED VISUALIZATION
2.8 GRAPH-BASED VISUALIZATION LAYOUTS TECHNIQUES
2.9 VISUALIZATION ISSUES .
2.10 KEY CONCEPT EXTRACTION (KCE) ..
2.11 HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI) .
2.12 RELATED WORK .
3 Research Methods
3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN AND STRATEGY
3.2 RESEARCH METHODS IN IS
3.3 RESEARCH APPROACH
3.4 QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DATA .
3.5 DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES
3.6 DESIGN OPTIONS AND DECISIONS
4 Empirical Findings and Analysis
4.1 PRIMARY DATA RESULTS
4.2 ANALYSIS OF PRIMARY DATA
4.3 SECONDARY DATA RESULTS
4.4 ANALYSIS OF SECONDARY DATA
4.6 COMPETENCE PROFILE STRUCTURE
4.7 METHOD FOR COMPETENCE PROFILE VISUALIZATION
4.8 LAYERED MODEL
5 Implementation .
6 Evaluation
7 Conclusion and Discussion
8 References
9 Appendix