Application for temporal analysis of scientific technology information

Abstract

In recent, business intelligence becomes one of important issues due to various analyses on technology trends. Especially, understanding the relations and influences between technologies is core property for the high-performed analysis. To do this, a few works have utilized ontologies constructed automatically but still have many errors and it causes difficulty while interpreting technology trends. Therefore this paper introduces an application which visualizes relationships and influences between technologies according to time series. Our application provides clues for intuitive observations of relationship change between technologies. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.