Bob Allen Research and Publications

Recent Publications

·         Waters, J., and Allen, R.B., Music Metadata in a New Key: Metadata and Annotation for Music in a Digital World Journal of Library Metadata, in press.

·         Allen, R.B. and Nalluru, S., Exploring History with Narrative Timelines.  HCII, 2009, LNCS 5617, pp 333-338, 2009. PDF.

  • Anderson, S., and Allen, R.B., Envisioning the Archival Commons, American Archivist, (2009) in press.

·         Allen, R.B., Electronic Newspapers (major entry), Encyclopedia of Database Systems, F.W. Tompa and T. Ozsu, editors, Springer, in press.

  • Allen, R.B., Waldstein, I., and Zhu, W., Automated Processing of Digitized Historical Newspapers: Identification of Segments and Genres. ICADL 2008. 380-387, PDF
  • Zhu, W., Chen, C., and Allen, R. B. (2008) Analyzing the Propagation of Influence and Concept Evolution in Enterprise Social Networks through Centrality and Latent Semantic Analysis. Washio, T. et al. (Eds.): Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Proceedings of the 12th Pacific-Asia Conference (PAKDD 2008), Osaka, Japan, May 20-23, 2008. LNCS, 5012, pp. 1090-1098. DOI (LNCS)
  • Allen, R.B., and Johnson, K., Preserving Digital Local News, The Electronic Library, 2008, 26 (3), 387 – 399.
  • Achananuparp,P., McCain, K., and Allen, R.B., Supporting Student Collaboration for Image Indexing, ICADL, December 2007, PDF. DOI (LNCS)
  • Allen, R.B., Highly Structured Scientific Publications. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (poster), June 2007. DOI,  ACM,  PDF,
  • Achananuparp,P. and Allen, R.B., Developing a Student-Friendly Repository for Teaching Principles of Repository Management, DigCCurr, Chapel Hill, NC,  2007.
  • Allen, R.B., Japzon, A., Achananuparp,P., and Lee, K-J., A Framework for Text Processing and Supporting Access to Collections of Digitized Historical Newspapers. HCI International Conference, 2007, PDF
  • Allen, R.B., Wu, Y.J., and Jun, L., Interactive Causal Schematics for Qualitative Scientific Explanations, ICADL 2005, (LNCS 3815/2005,411-415) PDF.
  • Allen, R.B., A Focus-Context Timeline for Browsing Historical Newspapers. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2005, 260-261. DOI, ACM PDF,
  • Song, M., Song, I., Hu, X., and Allen, R.B., KXtractor: An Effective Biomedical Information Extraction Technique Based on Mixture Hidden Markov Models LNCS Transactions on Computational Systems Biology, 2005.
  • Diker, V., and Allen, R.B., XMILE: XML as an Interchange Language for System Dynamics Models, System Dynamics Review, 21(4), 351-359
  • Senserini, A., Allen, R.B., Hodge, G., Anderson, N., and Smith, D., Archiving and Accessing Web Pages: The Goddard Library Web Capture Project, D-Lib Magazine, November 2004.
  • Hodge, G., Templeton, C., and Allen, R.B., A Metadata Element Set for Project Documentation, Issues in Science and Technology Librianship, 25(4), 2005, 5-23.
  • Allen, R.B., Using information visualization to support access of archival records. Journal of Archival Organization, 3(1), 2005, 37-49.
  • Allen, R.B. and Wu, Y., Metrics of the scope of a collection, JASIST, 55,(10), 2005, 1243-1249.
  • Allen, R.B., A Query Interface for an Event Gazetteer, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2004, 72-73. PDF, ACM
  • Allen, R.B. and Wu, Y., Generality of Texts, ICADL, Singapore, December, 2002. PDF
  • Allen, R.B., Murray, G.C., and Yang, H., WQ: An environment for teaching information access skills, EdMedia June 2002, Denver.
  • Allen, R.B. and Puntai, W., A digital library-based recommendation service for multimedia development in a learning community, European Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, March 2001, Maasricht, Netherlands, 37-42. DOC.
  • Allen, R.B., Digital Libraries -- A cornerstone of the Web-based services. International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, Seoul, Korea, Dec., 2000, (invited). PPT.
  • Allen, R. B. and Acheson, J. A., Browsing the structure of multimedia stories, ACM Digital Libraries San Antonio, TX, June, 2000, 11-18. PDF, ACM
  • Semple, P., Allen, R. B., and Rose. A., Developing an educational multimedia digital library: Content preparation, indexing, and usage, EdMedia 2000, Montreal, PQ, June, 2000. DOC.
  • Rose, A., Allen, R. B., and Fulton, K., Multiple channels of electronic communication for building a distributed learning community. Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Palo Alto, CA, Dec., 1999, 495-502. PDF
  • Harris, C., Allen, R.B., Plaisant, C., and Shneiderman, B., Temporal Visualization for Legal Case Histories, ASIS, Nov. 1999, Washington, DC.
  • Allen, R.B. and Schalow, J., Metadata and data structures for the Historical Newspaper Digital Library Project, ACM CIKM, Kansas City, November, 1999. Postscript, PDF, ACM.
  • Kumar, V., Furuta, R., and Allen, R.B., Metadata visualization for digital libraries: Interactive timeline editing and review. ACM Digital Libraries, 1998, 126-133. ACM
  • Allen, R.B., Mental Models and User Models, In Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction, Landauer, T.K., Prabhu, P., Helander, M., Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 1997, 49-63. PDF.
  • Allen, R.B., Retrieval from facet spaces, Electronic Publishing, 247-257, 8, 1996. (presented as Electronic Publishing, 1996, Palo Alto CA). HTML, PS, PDF
  • Kumar, V., Furuta, R., and Allen, R.B., Interactive interfaces for knowledge-rich domains, Electronic Publishing 235-246, 8, 1995. (presented at Electronic Publishing 1996, Palo Alto, CA). HTML
  • England, P., Allen, R.B., and Underwood, R., RAVE: RealTime services for the Web. Proceedings Fifth World-Wide Web Conference, (Paris May 1996). HTML
  • England, P., Allen, R.B., Sullivan, M., Bianchi, M., Heybey, A., and Dailianas, A., IBrowse: The Bellcore Video Library Toolkit. Proceedings SPIE Photonics West'96: Electronic Imaging Science and Technology '96: Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases IV. (San Jose Jan. 1996). Postscript , PDF
  • Dailianas, A., Allen, R.B., and England, P., Comparisons of automatic video segmentation algorithms. Proceedings SPIE Photonics East'95: Integration Issues in Large Commercial Media Delivery Systems (Philadelphia Oct. 1995). Postscript(311K), PDF
  • Allen, R.B., Timelines as information system interfaces. Proceedings International Symposium on Digital Libraries (Tsukuba, Japan, Aug. 1995), 175-180. HTML Postscript(10M), PDF
  • Allen, R.B., Two digital library interfaces that exploit hierarchical structure. Proceedings of DAGS95: Electronic Publishing and the Information SuperHighway (Boston, May 1995), 134-141. HTML Postscript(16M), PDF
  • Allen, R.B., Interface issues for interactive multimedia documents. In: Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries, Edited by: N. Adam et al., 1995, Springer-Verlag, (also Proceedings Digital Library Forum, May 1995, McLean, VA, 133-141), PS, PDF
  • Allen, R.B., Navigating and searching in digital library catalogs. Proceedings Digital Libraries '94, (College Station, TX, June 1994), 95-100. HTML
  • Allen, R.B., Electronic proceedings (EPROCS) for IWANNT'93. ACM SIGCHI Conference Companion (Boston, Apr. 1994), 287-288. HTML
  • Allen R.B., Obry, P.D., and Littman, M., An interface for navigating clustered document sets returned by queries. Conference on Organizational Computing Systems (Milpitas, CA Nov. 1993), 166-171. HTML Postscript(9M), PDF, ACM

Selected Previous Publications

  • Allen, R.B. and Kamm, C.A., A recurrent neural network for word identification from continuous phoneme sequences. In: R. Lippmann, J. Moody, and D. Touretzky (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 3 Morgan Kaufmann: San Mateo 1991, 206-212.
  • Allen, R.B., User models: Method, theory, and practice. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 32 1990, 511-543. PDF
  • Allen, R.B., Connectionist language users. Connection Science 2 1990, 279-311
  • Allen, R.B. and Alspector, J., Learning of Stable States in Stochastic Asymmetric Networks. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 1, 1990, 233-238.
  • Alspector, J., Gupta, B., and Allen, R.B., Performance of a stochastic learning microchip. In: D. Touretzky (Ed.), Advances in Neural Information Processing (AIP Press), 1988, 748-760.
  • Alspector, J. and Allen, R.B., A neuromorphic VLSI learning system In: P. Losleben (Ed.): 1987 Stanford Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA), 1987, 313-349.
  • Alspector, J., Allen, R.B., Hu, V., and Satyanarayana, S., Stochastic learning networks and their electronic implementation. Proceedings Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Denver, 1987), 9-21.
  • Breckler, S.J., Allen, R.B. and Konecni, V.J., Mood-optimizing strategies in aesthetic-choice behavior. Music Perception 2 1985, 459-470.
  • Allen, R.B. and Breckler, S.J., Human factors of telephone-mediated interactive electronic games, ACM SIGPC/SIGSMALL Conference Proceedings (San Diego, Dec. 1983), 200-205.
  • Allen, R.B. and Scerbo, M.W., Details of command-language keystrokes. ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems 1983, 159-178.
  • Allen, R.B., Cognitive factors in the use of menus and trees: An experiment. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications SAC-1 1983, 333-336.
  • Allen, R.B., Cognitive factors in human interaction with computers. A. Badre and B. Shneiderman (Eds.), Directions in Human/Computer Interaction, Ablex: Norwood, NJ, 1983, 1-26
    also in Behaviour and Information Technology 1982, 257-278.
  • Allen, R.B., Composition and editing of text. Ergonomics 24 1981, 611-622.
  • Allen, R.B. and Ebbesen, E.B., Cognitive processes in impression formation: Retrieval of personality trait and behavioral information. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 17 1981, 119-141.
  • Ebbesen, E.B. and Allen, R.B., Cognitive processes in implicit personality inferences Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 37, 1979, 471-488.

 





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