Zinayida Petrushyna

Short Biography

 Zinayida Petrushyna got her Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Odessa National Polytechnic University in 2004. She finished Master program in Software System Engineering from RWTH Aachen in 2007.

Her master thesis was called "Network Modelling and Structural-Semantic Analysis of E-Learning Communities". She analysed communities in E-Learning area using following concepts:

• Social network analysis
• Natural language processing
• Actor Network Theory
• I* Modelling

Currently she is working as a research assistant at the the information systems chair(Informatik 5), RWTH Aachen University .

Research Interests:

• Virtual Communities of Practice, Technology Enhanced Learning, Personal Learning Environements (PLE)
• Web 2.0/Social Software, Social Network Analysis, Dynamic Network Analysis, Cross-media analysis
• Concept mining, Data mining, Text mining
• Natural language processing, Information retrieval, Emotional Web Intelligence
• Gaming theory

Projects:

This year:

Responsive Open Learning Environments (ROLE)

Last year:

EU Tempus Cairo University E-Learning Center (CUELC)

Master/Diploma  theses:

Content-Based Pattern Analysis as a Knowledge Discovery Method

Assigned Theses

• Application of Game Theory in the Long Tail of Learning
• Recognizing People, Places, Conferences and Events in the Web 2.0
• The Culture of Wikis ? A Dynamic Network Analysis Approach

Publications

2008

• Y. Cao, A. Glukhova, R. Klamma, z. Petrushyna:
  Getting to "Know" People on the Web 2.0
  K. Tochtermann et. al. (Eds.): Proceedings fo I-Know'08 and I-Media'08, International Conferences on Knowledge Management and New Media Technology, Graz, Austria, September 3-5, 2008, Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), pp.169-176
  Abstract
  
• R. Klamma, Z. Petrushyna:
  The Troll Under the Bridge: Data Management for Huge Web Science Mediabases
  H.-GT. Hegering, A. Lehmann, J. Ohlbach, C. Scheideler (eds.): Proceedings of the 38. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), die INFORMATIK 2008, Köllen Druck+Verlag GmbH, Bonn, pp. 923-928
  
• Z. Petrushyna and R. Klamma:
  No Guru, No Method, No Teacher: Self-Oberservation and Self-Modelling of E-Learning Communities
  3rd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2008, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2008, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 5192, pp.354-365
  Abstract
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