From Coincidence to Purposeful Flow? Properties of Transcendental Information Cascades

Luczak‐Roesch, Markus; Tinati, Ramine; Kleek, Max Van; Shadbolt, Nigel

doi:10.1145/2808797.2809393

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“…Above, we noted that it is desirable to collect longitudinal, or at least time-stamped, FM data (for example, logging data, file access times, and so on). If this challenge is met, new analytical techniques will be available for analyzing and finding insights within such data; for example, methods for tracking information flows across time (for example, as provided by Luczak-Roesch, Tinati, Van Kleek, & Shadbolt, 2015) may be used to understand the movement of information over time within and across file collections.…”

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The ubiquitous digital file: A review of file management research

Dinneen

Julien

2019

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Computer users spend time every day interacting with digital files and folders, including downloading, moving, naming, navigating to, searching for, sharing, and deleting them. Such file management has been the focus of many studies across various fields, but has not been explicitly acknowledged nor made the focus of dedicated review. In this article we present the first dedicated review of this topic and its research, synthesizing more than 230 publications from various research domains to establish what is known and what remains to be investigated, particularly by examining the common motivations, methods, and findings evinced by the previously furcate body of work. We find three typical research motivations in the literature reviewed: understanding how and why users store, organize, retrieve, and share files and folders, understanding factors that determine their behavior, and attempting to improve the user experience through novel interfaces and information services. Relevant conceptual frameworks and approaches to designing and testing systems are described, and open research challenges and the significance for other research areas are discussed. We conclude that file management is a ubiquitous, challenging, and relatively unsupported activity that invites and has received attention from several disciplines and has broad importance for topics across information science.

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Section: Future Challenges and Research Directionsmentioning

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The ubiquitous digital file: A review of file management research

Dinneen

Julien

2019

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“…Towards this goal, an analytical method has been proposed in (LuczakRoesch et al, 2015b) and (Luczak-Roesch et al, 2015c). This method produces Transcendental Information Cascades, directed networks, formalised below, consisting of information co-occurrences characterized solely by time and inherent properties of pairs of content resources.…”

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What an entangled Web we weave: An information-centric approach to socio-technical systems

Luczak‐Roesch¹,

Tinati²,

O’Hara³

2017

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A new layer of complexity, constituted of networks of information token recurrence, has been identified in socio-technical systems such as the Wikipedia online community and the Zooniverse citizen science platform. The identification of this complexity reveals that our current understanding of the actual structure of those systems, and consequently the structure of the entire World Wide Web, is incomplete. Here we establish the principled foundations and practical advantages of analyzing information diffusion within and across Web systems with Transcendental Information Cascades, and outline resulting directions for future study in the area of socio-technical systems. We also suggest that Transcendental Information Cascades may be applicable to any kind of time-evolving system that can be observed using digital technologies, and that the structures found in such systems consist of properties common to all naturally occurring complex systems.Keywords information · philosophy · temporal data mining · socio-technical systems · information theory · information systems · social network analysis · complexity science · network science

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“…Here we present a novel approach to gain insights into the transmission dynamics of an epidemic outbreak. Our method is based on Transcendental Information Cascades [16,17] and combines gene sequence analysis with temporal data mining to uncover potential relationships between a virus' genetic evolution and distinct occurrences of infections. We apply this new approach to publicly available genomic sequence data from the currently ongoing outbreak of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus.…”

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Networks of information token recurrences derived from genomic sequences may reveal hidden patterns in epidemic outbreaks: A case study of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus

Luczak‐Roesch

2020

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Profiling the genetic evolution and dynamic spreading of viruses is a crucial task when responding to epidemic outbreaks. We aim to devise novel ways to model, visualise and analyse the temporal dynamics of epidemic outbreaks in order to help researchers and other people involved in crisis response to make well-informed and targeted decisions about from which geographical locations and time periods more genetic samples may be required to fully understand the outbreak. Our approach relies on the application of Transcendental Information Cascades to a set of temporally ordered nucleotide sequences, and we apply it to real-world data that was collected during the currently ongoing outbreak of the novel 2019-nCoV coronavirus. We assess information-theoretic and network-theoretic measures that characterise the resulting complex network and identify touching points and temporal pathways that are candidates for deeper investigation by geneticists and epidemiologists.

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From Coincidence to Purposeful Flow? Properties of Transcendental Information Cascades

Cited by 14 publications

References 19 publications

The ubiquitous digital file: A review of file management research

The ubiquitous digital file: A review of file management research

What an entangled Web we weave: An information-centric approach to socio-technical systems

Networks of information token recurrences derived from genomic sequences may reveal hidden patterns in epidemic outbreaks: A case study of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus

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