Hello, I'm Dalibor Fiala, Ph.D.
After spending a semester at the Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom in 2001, I graduated in software engineering from the University of West Bohemia (UWB), Pilsen, Czech Republic in 2003.
In 2007 I received my Ph.D. degree under joint supervision from both the UWB and Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France in the field of computer science and engineering.
I was a teaching and research assistant at Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, France in 2006-2007 and a software engineer in the automotive industry with Gefasoft AG, Munich, Germany in 2007-2009.
From 2009 to 2014 I was working as an assistant professor of computer science at the UWB and have been Associate Professor of computer science at the same institution since 2014.
In addition, I also started working as an independent IT Consultant in 2024.
I am the author or coauthor of more than 50 papers on various aspects of data mining, information retrieval, informetrics, scientometrics and research evaluation, and computer security.
I have been invited to give talks on these topics at renown institutions in different European countries.
I've led national as well as international research and innovation projects and have been supervising doctoral students.
I have been reviewing articles for many prestigious scientific outlets, have been sitting on the editorial boards of several research journals and have been advising a number of international research-funding organizations.
In addition to my native Czech, I also speak English, German, and French.
| 2007 | Ph.D. under joint supervision in computer science at Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France and at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (UWB), Czech Republic |
| 2003 | MSc. (Ing.) in computer science at UWB |
| 2024 - present | IT Consultant |
| 2014 - present | Associate Professor at the University of West Bohemia |
| 2009 - 2014 | assistant professor, project manager, and researcher at UWB |
| 2007 - 2009 | software engineer at Gefasoft AG in Munich, Germany |
| 2006 - 2007 | assistant professor at Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, France |
| 2018 - 2021 | "KnowING IPR - Fostering Innovation in the Danube Region through Knowledge Engineering and IPR Management", Interreg Danube DTP2‑076-1.1 (co-investigator), funded by the European Union |
| 2014 - 2015 | "MODINFORM - Modern Informetric Methods for the Evaluation of Scientific Research", MŠMT MOBILITY 7AMB14SK090 (principal investigator), funded by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic |
| 2011 - 2014 | "NTIS - New Technologies for Information Society", European Centre of Excellence, CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0090 (junior researcher), funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) |
| 2006, 2009 - 2010 | 2C06009 COT-SEWing (project participant), on the semantic Web and natural language processing methods, funded by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic |
| 2005 | FRVŠ 1347/2005/G1 (principal investigator), on knowledge extraction from the Web content and topology, funded by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic |
| 2004 - 2005 | RNTL Paploo (project participant), on electronic re-edition, funded by the French Ministry of Education |
| Publications | 57 publications in total on data mining, Web mining, information retrieval, information science, and informetrics from which there are 33 journal articles, 19 conference proceedings papers, 3 theses, 1 monograph, and 1 technical report; 35 of the publications are in the Web of Science database |
| Research interests | data mining, information retrieval, information science, informetrics, scientometrics, research evaluation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital libraries, cybersecurity |
| Courses taught | information retrieval, Web applications, database models and methods, programming structures, user interfaces, data processing programming techniques, foundations of information technologies + supervising bachelor's and master's theses and doctoral dissertations |
| 2020 | State Agency on Intellectual Property, Chisinau, Moldova (online). KnowING IPR: Which Data Are Retrieved within the Web Application?. June 30, 2020. |
| 2019 | Patent- und Markenzentrum Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany. The KnowING IPR Platform: an Open Access Tool for Advanced IPR Analysis. July 10, 2019. |
| Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Budapest, Hungary. Real-Life IPR Data. April 9, 2019. |
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| 2018 | 10th International Conference on Information Technologies and Information Society (ITIS 2018), Novo mesto, Slovenia. Online Sources of Patent and Bibliographic Data: Accessing and Processing Them. October 25, 2018. |
| Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany. Moderne informetrische Methoden zur Bewertung der Wissenschaftler. July 24, 2018. |
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| 2017 | Technische Hochschule Deggendorf, Deggendorf, Germany. Moderne informetrische Methoden zur Analyse und Bewertung von Publikationen. November 23, 2017. |
| Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto, Novo mesto, Slovenia. Modern Informetric Methods for the Evaluation of Scientific Research. July 7, 2017. |
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| 2016 | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland. Moderne informetrische Methoden zur Bewertung der Wissenschaftler. August 3, 2016. |
| University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. New Informetric Methods for the Evaluation of Scientific Research. July 26, 2016. |
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| 2015 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nűrnberg, Erlangen, Germany. Neue informetrische Methoden zur Bewertung der Wissenschaftler. December 21, 2015. |
| Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Košice, Slovakia. Bibliografické databáze a jejich praktické použití. July 7, 2015. |
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| 2014 | University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom. Google's PageRank as a Tool for Bibliometric Measurements. August 1, 2014. |
| Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Košice, Slovakia. Moderní informetrické metody hodnocení vědeckého výzkumu. July 2, 2014. |
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| 2013 | Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany. Neue informetrische Methoden zur Bewertung der Wissenschaftler. December 16, 2013. |
| Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. Webtechnologien und Webdienste. December 5, 2013. |
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| Univerza v Ljubljani, Ljubljana, Slovenia. PageRank: from Google to citation analysis. July 10, 2013. |
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| Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Košice, Slovakia. PageRank: od Googlu k citační analýze. April 9, 2013. |
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| 2012 | Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United Kingdom. Web technologies and services. November 22, 2012. |
| Hochschule Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. PageRank: von Google zur Zitationsanalyse. July 4, 2012. |
| Article reviews | Applied Sciences (ISSN: 2076-3417) |
| Artificial Intelligence Review (ISSN: 0269-2821) | |
| Austrian Journal of Statistics (ISSN: 1026-597X) | |
| Computers and Electrical Engineering (ISSN: 0045-7906) | |
| Expert Systems with Applications (ISSN: 0957-4174) | |
| Information Development (ISSN: 1741-6469) | |
| Information Processing and Management (ISSN: 0306-4573) | |
| International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (ISSN: 1947-8186) | |
| IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (ISSN: 1556-603X) | |
| IETE Technical Review (ISSN: 0256-4602) | |
| Journal of Basic and Applied Research International (ISSN: 2395-3438) | |
| Journal of Information Science (ISSN: 0165-5515) | |
| Journal of Informetrics (ISSN: 1751-1577) | |
| Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ISSN: 2330-1635) | |
| Journal of Scientific Research and Reports (ISSN: 2320-0227) | |
| Kuwait Journal of Science (ISSN: 2307-4108) | |
| Physica A (ISSN: 0378-4371) | |
| Publications (ISSN: 2304-6775) | |
| Science Innovation (ISSN: 2328-7861) | |
| Scientometrics (ISSN: 0138-9130) | |
| Social Network Analysis and Mining (ISSN: 1869-5450) | |
| Webology (ISSN: 1735-188X) | |
| Editorial boards | Acta Electrotechnica et Informatica (ISSN: 1335-8243) |
| Journal of Informetrics (ISSN: 1751-1577) | |
| SAIEE Africa Research Journal (ISSN: 0038-2221) | |
| Conference programme committees | IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, May 28 - 30, 2014, Marrakesh, Morocco. |
| Znalosti 2014, September 26 - 28, 2014, Jasná pod Chopkom, Slovakia. | |
| Data a znalosti 2015, October 1 - 2, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic. | |
| Data a znalosti 2016, November 3 - 4, 2016, Smolenice, Slovakia. | |
| Data a znalosti 2017, October 5 - 6, 2017, Pilsen, Czech Republic. | |
| Data a znalosti 2018, October 11 - 12, 2018, Brno, Czech Republic. | |
| Data a znalosti 2019, October 10 - 11, 2019, Košice, Slovakia. | |
| Research grant evaluation | Evaluator of the Innovation Fund Denmark in the Grand Solutions 2024 (Digitalization, technology and innovation) call |
| Reviewer of the Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation Council in the Academic Research Grant (ARG-02) programme call (2024) | |
| Reviewer of the Eureka Association in the Eurostars 3 - Call 6 (2024) programme call | |
| Reviewer of the Slovak Research and Development Agency in the Grant APVV 2023 call | |
| Expert evaluator of the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation in the RESTART 2016-2020 Programmes for Research, Technological Development and Innovation (2023) | |
| Reviewer and rapporteur of the Slovenian Research Agency within the Public call for the (co-)financing of research projects in 2023 and Public call for the (co-)financing of research projects in 2024 | |
| External reviewer of The Research Council (Oman) in the Block Funding Program 2022 | |
| Reviewer of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia in the IDEAS (2020) and PROMIS 2023 programme calls | |
| Reviewer of the Italian Ministry for University and Research (MUR) in the 2020 PRIN call | |
| Reviewer of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (United Kingdom) in the call EPSRC Fellowship - Early Career (2020) | |
| Reviewer and rapporteur of The National Centre for Research and Development (Poland) in the Small Grant Scheme 2020 Call of the Applied Research Programme and SPPW Call 2024 of the Programme Research and Innovation - Applied Research (Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme) | |
| Reviewer and panel member (Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Natural and Technical Sciences, respectively) of the Research Council of Lithuania in the Polish-Lithuanian Funding Initiative (DAINA 2) Call for Proposals 2020, Postdoctoral Fellowships Programme Call 2023, Impact-Driven Programme "Information Technologies for the Development of Science and Knowledge Society" Call 2024, and Postdoctoral Fellowships Programme Call 2024 | |
| Independent expert of the Bulgarian National Science Fund in the Competition for Financial Support for Basic Research Projects - 2020 | |
| Reviewer of the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic in the programme VES15 COST CZ (The European Cooperation in Science and Technology) | |
| External referee of the Romanian National Research Council in the programmes Exploratory Research Projects (PCE2012), Postdoctoral Research Projects (PD2012), and Young Research Teams (RUTE2014) | |
| Institutional evaluation | Expert and panel member (Committee of Natural and Technical Sciences) of the Research Council of Lithuania in the Comparative Expert Assessment 2023 |
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Fiala, D., & Maltseva, D. (2024). Analysis of Cited References in Russian Publications on Web of Science. Journal of Scientometric Research, 13(1), 93-102. Link. |
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Fiala, D., & Maltseva, D. (2023). Russian Publications in Web of Science: A Bibliometric Study. COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management, 17(2), 217-245. Link. |
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Heigl, M., Weigelt, E., Fiala, D., & Schramm, M. (2021). Unsupervised feature selection for outlier detection on streaming data to enhance network security. Applied Sciences, 11(24), art. no. 12073. Link. |
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Heigl, M., Weigelt, E., Urmann, A., Fiala, D., & Schramm, M. (2021). Exploiting the outcome of outlier detection for novel attack pattern recognition on streaming data. Electronics, 10(17), art. no. 2160. Link. |
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Heigl, M., Anand, K. A., Urmann, A., Fiala, D., Schramm, M., & Hable, R. (2021). On the improvement of the isolation forest algorithm for outlier detection with streaming data. Electronics, 10(13), art. no. 1534. Link. |
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Fiala, D., & Bornmann, L. (2020). Reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) of computer science papers from Eastern Europe. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 72(3), 305-319. Link. |
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Heigl, M., Doerr, L., Tiefnig, N., Fiala, D., & Schramm, M. (2019). A resource-preserving self-regulating Uncoupled MAC algorithm to be applied in incident detection. Computers & Security, 85, 270-287. Link. |
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Subelj, L., Fiala, D., Ciglaric, T., & Kronegger, L. (2019). Convexity in scientific collaboration networks. Journal of Informetrics, 13(1), 10-31. Link. |
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Fiala, D., & Tutoky, G. (2017). PageRank-based prediction of award-winning researchers and the impact of citations. Journal of Informetrics, 11(4), 1044-1068. Link. |
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Subelj, L., & Fiala, D. (2017). Publication boost in Web of Science journals and its effect on citation distributions. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(4), 1018-1023. Link. |
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Fiala, D., & Ho, Y.-S. (2016). Comparison of Czech and Slovak independent research in the 21st century. Current Science, 110(8), 1524-1531. Link. |
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Fiala, D., Tutoky, G., Koncz, P., & Paralic, J. (2015). Ageing of Edges in Collaboration Networks and its Effect on Author Rankings. Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, 12(6), 149-160. Link. |
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Fiala, D., & Willett, P. (2015). Computer science in Eastern Europe 1989-2014: a bibliometric study. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 67(5), 526-541. Link. |
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Fiala, D., & Ho, Y.-S. (2015). Twenty years of Czech science: A bibliometric analysis. Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, 20(2), 85-102. Link. |
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Fiala, D., Subelj, L., Zitnik, S., & Bajec, M. (2015). Do PageRank-based author rankings outperform simple citation counts? Journal of Informetrics, 9(2), 334-348. Link. |
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Subelj, L., Fiala, D., & Bajec, M. (2014). Network-based statistical comparison of citation topology of bibliographic databases. Scientific Reports, 4, art. no. 6496. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2014). Sub-organizations of institutions in computer science journals at the turn of the century. Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, 19(2), 53-68. Link. |
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Nykl, M., Jezek, K., Fiala, D., & Dostal, M. (2014). PageRank variants in the evaluation of citation networks. Journal of Informetrics, 8(3), 683-692. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2014). Current Index: A proposal for a dynamic rating system for researchers. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(4), 850-855. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2012). Time-aware PageRank for bibliographic networks. Journal of Informetrics, 6(3), 370-388. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2012). Bibliometric analysis of CiteSeer data for countries. Information Processing and Management, 48(2), 242-253. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2011). Mining citation information from CiteSeer data. Scientometrics, 86(3), 553-562. Link. |
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Fiala, D., Rousselot, F., & Jezek, K. (2008). PageRank for bibliographic networks. Scientometrics, 76(1), 135-158. Link. |
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Maltseva, D. V., Pavlova, I. A., Kapustina, L. V., Vashchenko, V. A., & Fiala, D. (2023). Comparative analysis of the capabilities of WoS and eLibrary for analyzing bibliographic networks [in Russian]. Sociology: Methodology, Methods, Mathematical Modeling (Sociology: 4M), 56, 7-68. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2022). Indonesia's place in the research landscape of Southeast Asia. Unisia, 40(1), 45-66. Link. |
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Fiala, D., Kral, P., & Dostal, M. (2021). Are papers asking questions cited more frequently in computer science? Computers, 10(8), art. no. 96. Link. |
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Fiala, D., & Tutoky, G. (2017). Computer Science Papers in Web of Science: A Bibliometric Analysis. Publications, 5(4), art. no. 23. Link. |
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Fiala, D., Havrilova, C., Dostal, M., & Paralic, J. (2016). Editorial Board Membership, Time to Accept, and the Effect on the Citation Counts of Journal Articles. Publications, 4(3), art. no. 21. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2013). Testing ranking algorithms on CiteSeer data. Global Journal of Advanced Engineering Technologies, 2(4), 176-180. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2013). From CiteSeer to CiteSeerX: Author rankings based on coauthorship networks. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 58(1), 191-204. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2013). Suborganizations of Institutions in Library and Information Science Journals. Information, 4(4), 351-366. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2013). Extracting information from CiteSeer's textual data. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 56(2), 176-182. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2013). Science Evaluation in the Czech Republic: The Case of Universities. Societies, 3(3), 266-279. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2009). Web Mining Methods for the Detection of Authoritative Sources: Theory and Practice. VDM Verlag, Saarbrucken. Link. |
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Heigl, M., Doerr, L., Schramm, M., & Fiala, D. (2019). On the Energy Consumption of Quantum-resistant Cryptographic Software Implementations Suitable for Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications (SECRYPT), pp. 72-83, Prague, Czech Republic. Link. |
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Doerr, L., Heigl, M., Fiala, D., & Schramm, M. (2019). Comparison of Energy-Efficient Key Management Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the 2019 International Electronics Communication Conference, pp. 21-26, Okinawa, Japan. Link. |
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Heigl, M., Schramm, M., & Fiala, D. (2019). A Lightweight Quantum-Safe Security Concept for Wireless Sensor Network Communication. In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), pp. 906-911, Kyoto, Japan. Link. |
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Heigl, M., Doerr, L., Almaini, A., Fiala, D., & Schramm, M. (2018). Incident Reaction Based on Intrusion Detections' Alert Analysis. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Applied Electronics, pp. 45-50, Pilsen, Czech Republic. Link. |
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Doerr, L., Fiala, D., Heigl, M., & Schramm, M. (2017). Assessment Simulation Model for Uncoupled Message Authentication. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Applied Electronics, pp. 45-48, Pilsen, Czech Republic. Link. |
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Dostal, M., Nykl, M., Jezek, K., & Fiala, D. (2013). Linked Data and PageRank-based Classification. In Proceedings of IADIS International Conference on Theory and Practice in Modern Computing, pp. 61-64, Prague, Czech Republic. Link. |
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Dostal, M., Fiala, D., & Jezek, K. (2013). Semantic Markup for Web Applications. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer, Communication, Information Sciences, and Engineering, pp. 506 - 509, Paris, France. Link. |
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Jezek, K., Fiala, D., & Steinberger, J. (2008). Exploration and Evaluation of Citation Networks. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, pp. 351-362, Toronto, Canada. Link. |
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Fiala, D., Rousselot, F., & Jezek, K. (2007). Ranking algorithms for web sites. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, pp. 372-375, Barcelona, Spain. Link. |
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Fiala, D., Jezek, K., & Rousselot, F. (2006). Finding Authoritative Researchers on Academic Web Sites. In Proceedings of the Conference of the World Academy of Science, Engineering, and Technology, pp. 74-79, Cairo, Egypt. Link. |
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Fiala, D., Tesar, R., Jezek, K., & Rousselot, F. (2006). Extracting Information from Web Content and Structure. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Implementation and Modelling, pp. 133-140, Prerov, Czech Republic. Link. |
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Tesar, R., Fiala, D., Rousselot, F., & Jezek, K. (2005). A comparison of two algorithms for discovering repeated word sequences. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Data Mining, Text Mining, and their Business Applications, pp. 121-131, Skiathos, Greece. Link. |
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Belaid, A., Alusse, A., Rangoni, Y., Cecotti, H., Farah, F., Gagean, N., Fiala, D., Rousselot, F., & Vigne, H. (2005). Document retro-conversion for personalized electronic reedition. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Document Analysis, pp. 193-218, Kolkata, India. Link. |
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Fiala, D., & Jezek, K. (2004). Retrieving Citations on the Web. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support, pp. 481-488, Porto, Portugal. Link. |
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Jezek, K., Fiala, D., Dostal, M., Baratta, S., Herout, P., Pesicka, L., Vcalova, M., Kral, P., Nykl, M., & Lenc, L. (2019). KnowING IPR: projekt podpory inovaci znalostnimi prostredky. In Proceedings of the Conference DATA A ZNALOSTI, pp. 93-96, Kosice, Slovakia. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2017). Ziskavani dat z bibliografickych databazi. In Proceedings of the Conference DATA A ZNALOSTI, pp. 72-76, Pilsen, Czech Republic. Link. |
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Kukral, P., Dostal, M., & Fiala, D. (2016). Vizualizace dat s vyuzitim frameworku AngularJS. In Proceedings of the Conference DATA A ZNALOSTI, pp. 129-133, Smolenice, Slovakia. Link. |
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Fiala, D., Dostal, M., Paralic, J., Tutoky, G., & Havrilova, C. (2015). Moderne informetricke metody hodnotenia vedeckeho vyskumu. In Proceedings of the Conference DATA A ZNALOSTI, pp. 81-84, Prague, Czech Republic. Link. |
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Fiala, D., Jezek, K., & Rousselot, F. (2007). Vyuziti struktury webu pro vyhledavani autoritativnich instituci a osob. In Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference ZNALOSTI, pp. 300-303, Ostrava, Czech Republic. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2013). Modern Informetric Methods for the Evaluation of Scientific Research. Habilitation thesis, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2007). Web Mining Methods for the Detection of Authoritative Sources. PhD dissertation, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic, and Louis Pasteur University Strasbourg, France. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2005). Web Mining and Its Applications to Researchers Support. Technical report, no. DCSE/TR-2005-06, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic. Link. |
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Fiala, D. (2003). A System for Citations Retrieval on the Web. MSc thesis, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic. Link. |
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