ISAND: an information system for scientific activity analysis (in the field of control theory and its applications)

This paper describes the approaches underlying ISAND, an information system for scientific activity analysis in the field of control theory and its applications. ISAND is being developed at the Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences. The ISAND ontology is oriented toward the representation and collection of knowledge in the field of control theory and its applications, namely, scientific knowledge (the ontology of control theory) and knowledge related to the scientific activity of agents (organizations, journals, conferences, and individual researchers) in this field. Based on this ontology, the ISAND architecture is a complex program system to collect, store, and analyze publications and their metadata from external sources. The ISAND algorithm for building the thematic profiles of scientific objects (publications, researchers, organizations, journals, and conferences), as well as ISAND text processing and network analysis capabilities, are presented. Finally, the main possibilities of using ISAND are considered.