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Ljupco Todorovski

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Constructing explanatory process models from biological data and knowledge.

OBJECTIVE: We address the task of inducing explanatory models from observations and knowledge about candidate biological processes, using the illustrative problem of modeling photosynthesis regulation. METHODS: We cast both models and background knowledge in terms of processes that interact to account for behavior. We also describe IPM, an algorithm for inducing quantitative process models from such input. RESULTS: We demonstrate IPM's use both on photosynthesis and on a second domain, biochemical kinetics, reporting the models induced and their fit to observations. CONCLUSION: We consider the generality of our approach, discuss related research on biological modeling, and suggest directions for future work.

Algorithms↗

Users' information-seeking behavior on a medical library Website.

The Central Medical Library (CMK) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, started to build a library Website that included a guide to library services and resources in 1997. The evaluation of Website usage plays an important role in its maintenance and development. Analyzing and exploring regularities in the visitors' behavior can be used to enhance the quality and facilitate delivery of information services, identify visitors' interests, and improve the server's performance. The analysis of the CMK Website users' navigational behavior was carried out by analyzing the Web server log files. These files contained information on all user accesses to the Website and provided a great opportunity to learn more about the behavior of visitors to the Website. The majority of the available tools for Web log file analysis provide a predefined set of reports showing the access count and the transferred bytes grouped along several dimensions. In addition to the reports mentioned above, the authors wanted to be able to perform interactive exploration and ad hoc analysis and discover trends in a user-friendly way. Because of that, we developed our own solution for exploring and analyzing the Web logs based on data warehousing and online analytical processing technologies. The analytical solution we developed proved successful, so it may find further application in the field of Web log file analysis. We will apply the findings of the analysis to restructuring the CMK Website.

Consumer Behavior↗