Interaction among the scientific disciplines is of vital importance in modern science. Focusing on the case of Slovenia, we study the dynamics of interdisciplinary sciences from 1960 to 2010. Our approach relies on quantifying the interdisciplinarity of research communities detected in the coauthorship network of Slovenian scientists over time. Examining the evolution of the community structure, we find that the frequency of interdisciplinary research is only proportional with the overall growth of the network. Although marginal improvements in favor of interdisciplinarity are inferable during the 70s and 80s, the overall trends during the past 20 years are constant and indicative of stalemate. We conclude that the flow of knowledge between different fields of research in Slovenia is in need of further stimulation.
COBISS.SI-ID: 20503816
The objective of this work was to create a web application that can generate subnetworks of Slovenian research collaboration, based on either research projects or publications. The two main databases that capture national research activity (SICRIS and COBISS) were integrated and plugged into the application, which enables generation of subnetworks with application of different criteria and filters. This work is relevant for further development of Slovenian research network analysis.
COBISS.SI-ID: 27236391
In this paper we present results of research done on the network of Slovenian scholars, where nodes are research groups and there is a link between two groups if there exist at least one publication coauthored by at least one member of each of these groups. We put special focus to subnetworks created by research groups forming the socalled Competence centres (CC). Each of this CC received approximately 6.5 million EUR of research money for time span of four years to create new technological products and processes. Our expectation was that these strong financial impulses will also imply significant improvement of the network parameters describing size, productivity and connectivity of CC. We have realised that for the three CCs which we took into consideration this is not the case.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2048251667
This is the first comprehensive monograph on the mathematical theory of the solitaire game "The Tower of Hanoi" which was invented in the 19th century by the French number theorist Édouard Lucas. The book comprises a survey of the historical development from the gameʼs predecessors up to recent research in mathematics and applications in computer science and psychology. Apart from long-standing myths it contains a thorough, largely self-contained presentation of the essential mathematical facts with complete proofs, including also unpublished material. The main objects of research today are the so-called Hanoi graphs and the related Sierpiński graphs. Acknowledging the great popularity of the topic in computer science, algorithms and their correctness proofs form an essential part of the book. In view of the most important practical applications of the Tower of Hanoi and its variants, namely in physics, network theory, and cognitive (neuro)psychology, other related structures and puzzles like, e.g., the ŽTower of LondonŽ, are addressed. Numerous captivating integer sequences arise along the way, but also many open questions impose themselves. Central among these is the famed Frame-Stewart conjecture. Despite many attempts to decide it and large-scale numerical experiments supporting its truth, it remains unsettled after more than 70 years and thus demonstrates the timeliness of the topic. Enriched with elaborate illustrations, connections to other puzzles and challenges for the reader in the form of (solved) exercises as well as problems for further exploration, this book is enjoyable reading for students, educators, game enthusiasts and researchers alike.
COBISS.SI-ID: 16565337
The paper investigates interdisciplinarity of scientific fields based on graph of collaboration between the researchers. A new measure for interdisciplinarity is proposed that takes into account graph content and structure. Similarity between science categories is estimated based on text similarity between their descriptions. The proposed new measure is applied in exploratory analysis of research community in Slovenia. We found that Biotechnology and Natural sciences are the most interdisciplinary in their publications and collaborations on research projects. In addition evolution of interdisciplinarity of scientific fields in Slovenia is observed, showing that over the last decade interdisciplinarity increases the fastest in Medical sciences mainly due to collaborations with Natural and Technical sciences.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28426791