KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering (정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학)

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Understanding of Structural Changes of Keyword Networks in the Computer Engineering Field

컴퓨터공학 분야 키워드네트워크의 구조적 변화 이해

  • 권영근 (울산대학교 전기공학부)
  • Received : 2012.11.14
  • Accepted : 2013.01.16
  • Published : 2013.03.31
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Abstract

Recently, there have been many trials to analyze characteristics of research trends through a structural analysis of keyword networks in various fields. However, most previous studies have mainly focused on structural analysis harbored in some static networks and there is a lack of research on changes of such networks structure with time. In this paper, we constructed annual keyword networks by using a database of papers published in the international computer engineering-field journals from 2002 through 2011, and examined the changes of them. As a result, it was shown that most keywords in a network are preserved in the network of the next year, and their degree of connectivity and the average weight of the connections were higher and smaller, respectively, than those of the keywords which are not preserved. In addition, when a keyword network shifted to one of the next year, the connections between keywords were more likely to be removed than preserved, and the average weight of the removal connections was higher than that of the preserved ones. These results imply that the keywords are not changed over time but their connections are very likely to be changed; and there is apparent differences between the preserved and removal groups of keywords/connections with respect to degree and weights of connections. All these results are consistently observed over the ten-year datasets and they can be important principles in understanding the structural changes of the keyword networks.

최근 여러 분야에서 키워드네트워크의 구조 분석을 통해 연구동향의 특징을 분석하는 시도가 있어 왔다. 하지만 대부분의 기존 연구는 주로 정적인 네트워크의 구조 분석에 집중하였으며 시간에 따라 네트워크 구조가 어떻게 변화하는지에 대한 연구는 부족하였다. 본 논문에서는 2002년부터 2011년까지 컴퓨터 공학 분야의 해외 학술지에 게재된 논문들의 데이터베이스를 활용하여 연도별 키워드네트워크를 구축하고, 구조적 변화를 조사하였다. 그 결과, 키워드네트워크에서 대부분의 키워드는 다음 연도에서도 잔존하며 제거되는 키워드에 비해 연결(부속된 간선)의 차수는 크지만 평균 강도는 약한 특징을 보였다. 또한, 다음 연도의 키워드네트워크로 변화할 때, 키워드들 사이의 연결은 잔존되기보다 제거되는 비율이 높았으며 제거되는 연결들의 강도가 더 큰 특징을 보였다. 이러한 결과들은 연구 분야를 대변하는 키워드 자체의 변화는 작지만 그들 사이의 관계는 크게 변화하며 잔존 또는 제거되는 키워드 및 간선 그룹 사이에는 연결의 차수나 강도 측면에서 큰 차이가 존재함을 뜻한다. 본 논문의 분석결과들은 10년 동안의 데이터에 대해서 일관되게 관찰되었으며 이는 컴퓨터공학 분야 키워드네트워크 변화를 이해하는 데 중요한 원리임을 암시한다.

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