Browsing Tetherless World Publications by Author "Erickson, John S."

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    • A Mathematics Pipeline to Student Success in Data Analytics through Course-Based Undergraduate Research 

      Bennett, Kristin P.; Erickson, John S.; Svirsky, Amy; Seddon, Josephine (The Mathematics Enthusiast, 2021-12-16)
      This paper reports on Data Analytics Research (DAR), a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) in which undergraduate students conduct data analysis research on open real- world problems for industry, university, ...

    • A Semantic Framework for Enabling Radio Spectrum Policy Management and Evaluation 

      Santos, Henrique; Mulvehill, Alice; Erickson, John S.; McCusker, Jamie; Gordon, Minor; Xie, Owen; Stouffer, Samuel; Capraro, Gerard; Pidwerbetsky, Alex; Burgess, John; Berlinsky, Allan; Turck, Kurt; Ashdown, Jonathan; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2020)
      Because radio spectrum is a finite resource, its usage and sharing is regulated by government agencies. These agencies define policies to manage spectrum allocation and assignment across multiple organizations, systems, ...

    • A Semantic Workflow Approach to Web Science Analytics 

      Norris, Spencer; Erickson, John S.; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2017-06-25)
      Reproducibility and reuse are rapidly becoming guiding principles in publishing and sharing scientific results. In order to enhance researchers' ability to leverage existing results, many are moving in the direction of ...

    • Addressing Scientific Rigor in Data Analytics Using Semantic Workflows 

      Erickson, John S.; Sheehan, John; Bennett, Kristin P.; McGuinness, Deborah L. (Springer, Cham, 2016-06-16)
      New NIH grants require establishing scientific rigor, i.e. applicants must provide evidence of strict application of the scientific method to ensure robust and unbiased experimental design, methodology, analysis, interpretation ...

    • Automating Population Health Studies through Semantics and Statistics Semantic Statistics (SemStats) 

      New, Alexander; Qi, Miao; Chari, Shruthi; Rashid, Sabbir; Seneviratne, Oshani; McCusker, Jamie; Erickson, John S.; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Bennett, Kristin P. (Springer, 2019-10)
      With the rapid development of the Semantic Web, machines are able to understand the contextual meaning of data, including in the field of automated semantics-driven statistical reasoning. This paper introduces a ...

    • Building Web Observatories for Health Web Science 

      DiFranzo, Dominic; Erickson, John S.; Gloria, Kristine; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Luciano, Joanne (2014-06-23)
      As the World Wide Web continues to grow and change, the need to study and understand it grows. Web Science is an effort to do just this. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of Web Science, and the wide variety of data on ...

    • Characterizing Common Quarterly Behaviors In DeFi Lending Protocols 

      Green, Aaron; Giannattasio, Michael; Wang, Keran; Erickson, John S.; Seneviratne, Oshani; Bennett, Kristin P. (Springer, Cham., 2023-07)
      The emerging decentralized financial ecosystem (DeFi) is comprised of numerous protocols, one type being lending protocols. People make transactions in lending protocols, each of which is attributed to a specific blockchain ...

    • Data Visualization in the Semantic Web 

      Ma, Xiaogang; Chen, Yu; Wang, Han; Zheng, Jin Guang; Fu, Linyun; West, Patrick; Erickson, John S.; Fox, Peter (IOS Press, 2015)

    • DeFi Survival Analysis: Insights into Risks and User Behavior 

      Green, Aaron; Cammilleri, Christopher; Erickson, John S.; Seneviratne, Oshani; Bennett, Kristin P. (Springer, 2022-06)
      We propose a decentralized finance (DeFi) survival analysis approach for discovering and characterizing user behavior and risks in lending protocols. We demonstrate how to gather and prepare DeFi transaction data for ...

    • Eat4Genes: A Bioinformatic Rational Gene Targeting App and Prototype Model for Improving Human Health 

      Ford, M.L.; Cooley, J.M.; Sripada, V.; Erickson, John S.; Bennett, Kristin P.; Crawford, Dana R. (Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023-05-04)
      Eat4Genes is a prototype diet recommendation web app for patients, healthcare providers, and researchers that aids in the selection of a healthy diet to help treat and prevent numerous health conditions. Our approach is ...

    • Expanding Web Science Integration in an ITWS Curriculum 

      Erickson, John S.; Gloria, Kristine; Hughes, Greg (2014-06-26)
      Building on Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s continued effort to support a Web Science education, the following presents steps taken to integrate and enhance RPI’s Information Technology and Web Science (ITWS) program. ...

    • Explaining Scientific and Technical Emergence Forecasting 

      Michaelis, James; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Chang, Cynthia; Erickson, John S.; Hunter, Daniel; Babko-Malaya, Olga (2014-08-01)
      In decision support systems such as those designed to predict scientific and technical emergence based on analysis of collections of data the presentation of provenance lineage records in the form of a human-readable ...

    • Explaining Scientific and Technical Emergence Forecasting 

      Michaelis, James; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Chang, Cynthia; Erickson, John S.; Hunter, Daniel; Babko-Malaya, Olga (Applications of Social Media and Social Network Analysis, 2015-05-29)
      In decision support systems such as those designed to predict scientific and technical emergence based on analysis of collections of data the presentation of provenance lineage records in the form of a human-readable ...

    • Identifying First Responder Communities Using Social Network Analysis (POSTER ABSTRACT) 

      Erickson, John S.; Chastain, Katherine; Patton, Evan; Fry, Zach; Yan, Rui; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2014-10-19)
      First responder communities must identify technologies that are effective in performing duties ranging from law enforcement to emergency medical to fire fighting. We aimed to create tools that gather and assist in quickly ...

    • Identifying Windows of susceptibility by temporal Gene Analysis 

      Bennett, Kristin P.; Brown, Elisabeth; De Los Santos, Hannah; Poegel, Matt; Kiehl, Thomas; Patton, Evan; Norris, Spencer; Temple, Sally; Erickson, John S.; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Boles, Nathan (Scientific Reports, 2019-02-01)
      Increased understanding of developmental disorders of the brain has shown that genetic mutations, environmental toxins and biological insults typically act during developmental windows of susceptibility. Identifying these ...

    • In Memoriam: Dr. Norman Paskin, Founding Director, International DOI Foundation Visionary Pioneer of Reference Linking, Metadata and Persistent Identifier Infrastructure 

      Erickson, John S.; Lannom, Laurence W. (Data Science Journal, 2017)
      We were shocked and saddened to learn of the death of our longtime friend and colleague Dr. Norman Paskin in March 2016. Norman will be remembered as the thoughtful and tireless founding director of the International ...

    • Legal and ethical considerations: step 1b in building a health web observatory 

      Gloria, Kristine; Erickson, John S.; Luciano, Joanne; DiFranzo, Dominic; McGuinness, Deborah L. (2014-04-11)
      This paper explores the impact of health information technologies, including the Web, on society and advocates for the development of a Health Web Observatory (HWO) to collect, store and analyze new sources of health ...

    • Open Government Data: A Data Analytics Approach 

      Erickson, John S.; Viswanathan, Amar; Shinavier, Joshua; Hendler, James A. (IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2013-09-01)
      In December 2010 the International Open Government Dataset Search (IOGDS) team at the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute embarked on a project to discover, document and analyze open data ...

    • The Problem of Fairness in Synthetic Healthcare Data 

      Bhanot, Karan; Qi, Miao; Erickson, John S.; Guyon, Isabelle; Bennett, Kristin P. (Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2021-09)
      Access to healthcare data such as electronic health records (EHR) is often restricted by laws established to protect patient privacy. These restrictions hinder the reproducibility of existing results based on private ...

    • Producing and Using Linked Open Government Data in the TWC LOGD Portal 

      Lebo, Tim; Erickson, John S.; Graves, Alvaro; Williams, Gregory; DiFranzo, Dominic; Li, Xian; Michaelis, James; Zheng, Jin; Flores, Johanna; Shangguan, Zhenning; McGuinness, Deborah L.; Hendler, James A. (2011-11-04)
      As open government initiatives around the world pub- lish an increasing number of raw datasets, citizens and communities face daunting challenges when organiz- ing, understanding, and associating disparate data re- lated ...