ACS Viewer Software

From this page you can access the viewer software that is referred to in the following publications:

• N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, and J. van den Berg. A novel algorithm for visualizing concept associations. In Proceedings of the 17th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 397-398, 2005.
• N.J. van Eck, L. Waltman, and J. van den Berg. A novel algorithm for visualizing concept associations. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, pages 405-409, 2005.
• N.J. van Eck. Towards automatic knowledge discovery from scientific literature: Computer based tools for supporting scientific research. Master's thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam, April 2005.

The associative concept space constructed using the algorithm presented in the publications (ACS1) can be viewed here.

The associative concept space constructed using multidimensional scaling (ACS2) can be viewed here.

The software requires a browser that supports Java 1.4.