Collide Research Group University DuisburgEssen UDE Collide Facts

Collide Research Group University Duisburg-Essen (UDE)

Collide Facts - COLLIDE (Collaborative Learning in Intelligent Distributed Environments) founded in 1995 - Interdisciplinary team of 10 Researchers and 9 student assistants (at moment) - Current projects: – EU: SISOB and SCY (“Science Created by You”) – German ministry of research and education: Foodweb 2. 0, Ko. PIWA, KOLLEGEA (starting 03/11) - Context: Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science with focus on human oriented computing: 13 computer science groups and 3 psychology groups working and teaching together.

Related ongoing work - Current lines of research: * Collaborative learning environments (interaction analysis, architectures, agent support, mobiles) * Social network analysis and data mining applied to online communities * Competence modelling (using ontologies) for innovation and human resource management - SNA-related tools: Data-Multiplexer-Demultiplexer (DMD), Co. Na. Vi - Community Navigation and Visualization - Master course on Electronic Communities and Networks (focus on SNA) - Contributions to ASONAM and SUNBELT conferences;

Expectations and challenges - Further develop mixed (multi-vocational) approaches to analysing e-communities including advanced SNA methods in a realistic context - time dependency of measurements (window size, progression) - detection of cohesive subgroups (e. g. “group percolation”) - Setting up of an innovative multi-agent architecture for SISOB (crawlers, multiple postprocessing agents) - Scaffolding mechanisms to improve scientific