Trends in Computational Science: Natural Language Processing and Network Analysis of 23 Years of ICCS Publications

Lijing Luo, Sergey Kovalchuk, Valeria Krzhizhanovskaya, Maciej Paszynski, Clélia de Mulatier, Jack Dongarra, Peter M.A. Sloot

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Abstract

We analyze 7826 publications from the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) between 2001 and 2023 using natural language processing and network analysis. We categorize computer science into 13 main disciplines and 102 sub-disciplines sourced from Wikipedia. After lemmatizing full texts of these papers, we calculate the similarity scores between the papers and each sub-discipline using vectors built with TF-IDF evaluation. Among the 13 main disciplines, machine learning & AI have become the most popular topics since 2019, surpassing parallel & distributed computing, which peaked in the early 2010 s. Modeling & simulation, and algorithms & data structure have always been popular disciplines in ICCS over the past 23 years. The most frequently researched sub-disciplines, on average, are algorithms, numerical analysis, and machine learning. Deep learning shows the most rapid growth, while parallel computing has declined over the past 23 years in ICCS publications. The network of sub-disciplines exhibits a scale-free distribution, indicating certain disciplines are more connected than others. We also present correlation analysis of sub-disciplines, both within the same main disciplines and between different main disciplines.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Science – ICCS 2024 - 24th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsLeonardo Franco, Clélia de Mulatier, Maciej Paszynski, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya, Jack J. Dongarra, Peter M. A. Sloot
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages19-33
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783031637537
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Externally publishedYes
Event24th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2024 - Malaga, Spain
Duration: Jul 2 2024Jul 4 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14833 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2024
Country/TerritorySpain
CityMalaga
Period07/2/2407/4/24

Keywords

  • computational science
  • graph theory
  • ICCS
  • natural language processing
  • network analysis
  • scientometrics
  • topic modelling

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