Applications and evaluation: Overview

Abstract

This part of the book presents several applications which were motivated by the concept of bisociation, and to some extent exploited the notions of heterogeneous information networks, explicit contextualization and/or context crossing. The main goals of these applications are: to verify if the principles of heterogeneous information networks and bisociation, and their computational realization, can lead to new discoveries, to test the software platforms developed for bisociative knowledge discovery, and to find actual new discoveries in at least some application domains. Most of the applications are in the area of biology, but in addition there are interesting digressions to finance, improvements of business processes, and music recommendations. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.