
Dalibor Fiala
Phone: +420 377 63 2429
E-mail: dalfia@kiv.zcu.cz
WWW: http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/~dalfia/
Dalibor graduated from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic in 2003, specialized in software engineering. He spent a semester at the Queen's University of Belfast, UK in 2001. He defended his doctoral thesis under joint supervision in 2007 and holds a PhD degree from both the UWB and Louis Pasteur University Strasbourg, France. From 2007 to 2009, Dalibor was a software engineer with Gefasoft AG, Munich, Germany. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the UWB. He is interested in data mining, web mining, information retrieval, informetrics, and information science. Dalibor's consultancy website is here.
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Analysis of Cited References in Russian Publications on Web of Science | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Daria Maltseva |
Source: | Journal of Scientometric Research, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 93-102, 2024. |
ISSN: | 2321-6654 |
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Comparative analysis of the capabilities of WoS and eLibrary for analyzing bibliographic networks [in Russian] | |
Authors: | Daria Maltseva, Irina Pavlova, Lika Kapustina, Vasilisa Vashchenko, Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Sociology: Methodology, Methods, Mathematical Modeling (Sociology: 4M), vol. 56, pp. 7-68, 2023. |
ISSN: | 1994-8964 |
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Russian Publications in Web of Science: A Bibliometric Study | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Daria Maltseva |
Source: | COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 217-245, 2023. |
ISSN: | 0973–7766 |
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Indonesia’s place in the research landscape of Southeast Asia | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Unisia, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 45-66, 2022. |
ISSN: | 0215-1421 |
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Are Papers Asking Questions Cited More Frequently in Computer Science? | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Pavel Král, Martin Dostal |
Source: | Computers, vol. 10, no. 8, art. no. 96, 2021. |
ISSN: | 2073-431X |
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Exploiting the Outcome of Outlier Detection for Novel Attack Pattern Recognition on Streaming Data | |
Authors: | Michael Heigl, Enrico Weigelt, Andreas Urmann, Dalibor Fiala, Martin Schramm |
Source: | Electronics, vol. 10, no. 17, art. no. 2160, 2021. |
ISSN: | 2079-9292 |
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On the Improvement of the Isolation Forest Algorithm for Outlier Detection with Streaming Data | |
Authors: | Michael Heigl, Kumar Ashutosh Anand, Andreas Urmann, Dalibor Fiala, Martin Schramm, Robert Hable |
Source: | Electronics, vol. 10, no. 13, art. no. 1534, 2021. |
ISSN: | 2079-9292 |
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Unsupervised Feature Selection for Outlier Detection on Streaming Data to Enhance Network Security | |
Authors: | Michael Heigl, Enrico Weigelt, Dalibor Fiala, Martin Schramm |
Source: | Applied Sciences, vol. 11, no. 24, art. no. 12073, 2021. |
ISSN: | 2076-3417 |
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Reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) of computer science papers from Eastern Europe | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Lutz Bornmann |
Source: | Aslib Journal of Information Management, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 305-319, 2020. |
ISSN: | 2050-3806 |
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A Lightweight Quantum-Safe Security Concept for Wireless Sensor Network Communication | |
Authors: | Michael Heigl, Martin Schramm, Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Proc. of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), Kyoto, Japan, pp. 906-911, 2019. (ISBN 978-1-5386-9150-2) |
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A resource-preserving self-regulating Uncoupled MAC algorithm to be applied in incident detection | |
Authors: | Michael Heigl, Laurin Doerr, Nicolas Tiefnig, Dalibor Fiala, Martin Schramm |
Source: | Computers & Security, vol. 85, pp. 270-287, 2019. |
ISSN: | 0167-4048 |
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Comparison of Energy-Efficient Key Management Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks | |
Authors: | Laurin Doerr, Michael Heigl, Dalibor Fiala, Martin Schramm |
Source: | Proc. of the 2019 International Electronics Communication Conference, Okinawa, Japan, pp. 21-26, 2019. (ISBN 978-1-4503-7177-3) |
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Convexity in scientific collaboration networks | |
Authors: | Lovro Šubelj, Dalibor Fiala, Tadej Ciglarič, Luka Kronegger |
Source: | Journal of Informetrics, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 10-31, 2019. |
ISSN: | 1751-1577 |
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KnowING IPR: projekt podpory inovací znalostními prostředky | |
Authors: | Karel Ježek, Dalibor Fiala, Martin Dostal, Štěpán Baratta, Pavel Herout, Ladislav Pešička, Markéta Včalová, Pavel Král, Michal Nykl, Ladislav Lenc |
Source: | Proc. Data a znalosti 2019, Košice, Slovakia, pp. 93-96. (ISBN 978-80-553-3354-0) |
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On the Energy Consumption of Quantum-resistant Cryptographic Software Implementations Suitable for Wireless Sensor Networks | |
Authors: | Michael Heigl, Laurin Doerr, Martin Schramm, Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Proc. 16th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications (SECRYPT), Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 72-83, 2019. (ISBN 978-989-758-378-0) |
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Incident Reaction Based on Intrusion Detections’ Alert Analysis | |
Authors: | Michael Heigl, Laurin Doerr, Amar Almaini, Dalibor Fiala, Martin Schramm |
Source: | Proc. 23rd International Conference on Applied Electronics, Pilsen, Czech Republic, pp. 45-50, 2018. (ISBN 978-80-261-0721-7) |
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Assessment Simulation Model for Uncoupled Message Authentication | |
Authors: | Laurin Doerr, Dalibor Fiala, Michael Heigl, Martin Schramm |
Source: | Proc. 22nd International Conference on Applied Electronics, Pilsen, Czech Republic, pp. 45-48, 2017. (ISBN 978-80-261-0641-8) |
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Computer Science Papers in Web of Science: A Bibliometric Analysis | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Gabriel Tutoky |
Source: | Publications, vol. 5, no. 4, art. no. 23, 2017. |
ISSN: | 2304-6775 |
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PageRank-based prediction of award-winning researchers and the impact of citations | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Gabriel Tutoky |
Source: | Journal of Informetrics, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 1044-1068, 2017. |
ISSN: | 1751-1577 |
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Publication boost in Web of Science journals and its effect on citation distributions | |
Authors: | Lovro Šubelj, Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 1018-1023, 2017. |
ISSN: | 2330-1635 |
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Získávání dat z bibliografických databází | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Proc. Data a znalosti 2017, Pilsen, Czech Republic, pp. 72-76. (ISBN 978-80-261-0720-0) |
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Comparison of Czech and Slovak independent research in the 21st century | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Yuh-Shan Ho |
Source: | Current Science, vol. 110, no. 8, pp. 1524-1531, 2016. |
ISSN: | 0011-3891 |
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Editorial Board Membership, Time to Accept, and the Effect on the Citation Counts of Journal Articles | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Cecília Havrilová, Martin Dostal, Ján Paralič |
Source: | Publications, vol. 4, no. 3, art. no. 21, 2016. |
ISSN: | 2304-6775 |
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Vizualizace dat s využitím frameworku AngularJS | |
Authors: | Petr Kukrál, Martin Dostal, Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Proc. DATA A ZNALOSTI 2016, Smolenice, Slovakia, pp. 129-133. (ISBN 978-80-227-4619-9) |
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Ageing of Edges in Collaboration Networks and its Effect on Author Rankings | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Gabriel Tutoky, Peter Koncz, Ján Paralič |
Source: | Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 149-160, 2015. |
ISSN: | 1785-8860 |
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Computer science in Eastern Europe 1989-2014: a bibliometric study | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Peter Willett |
Source: | Aslib Journal of Information Management, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 526-541, 2015. |
ISSN: | 2050-3806 |
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Do PageRank-based author rankings outperform simple citation counts? | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Lovro Šubelj, Slavko Žitnik, Marko Bajec |
Source: | Journal of Informetrics, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 334-348, 2015. |
ISSN: | 1751-1577 |
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Moderné informetrické metódy hodnotenia vedeckého výskumu | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Martin Dostal, Ján Paralič, Gabriel Tutoky, Cecília Havrilová |
Source: | Proc. DATA A ZNALOSTI 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 81-84. (ISBN 978-80-248-3824-3) |
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Twenty years of Czech science: A bibliometric analysis | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Yuh-Shan Ho |
Source: | Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 85-102, 2015. |
ISSN: | 1394-6234 |
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Current Index: A Proposal for a Dynamic Rating System for Researchers | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 850-855, 2014. |
ISSN: | 2330-1635 |
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Network-based statistical comparison of citation topology of bibliographic databases | |
Authors: | Lovro Šubelj, Dalibor Fiala, Marko Bajec |
Source: | Scientific Reports, vol. 4, art. no. 6496, 2014. |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
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PageRank variants in the evaluation of citation networks | |
Authors: | Michal Nykl, Karel Ježek, Dalibor Fiala, Martin Dostal |
Source: | Journal of Informetrics, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 683–692, 2014. |
ISSN: | 1751-1577 |
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Sub-organizations of institutions in computer science journals at the turn of the century | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 53-68, 2014. |
ISSN: | 1394-6234 |
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Extracting information from CiteSeer’s textual data | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 176-182, 2013. |
ISSN: | 1992-8645 |
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From CiteSeer to CiteSeerX: Author rankings based on coauthorship networks | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 191-204, 2013. |
ISSN: | 1992-8645 |
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Linked Data and PageRank based classification | |
Authors: | Martin Dostal, Michal Nykl, Karel Ježek, Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Proceedings of IADIS International Conference Theory and Practice in Modern Computing 2013 (part of MCCSIS 2013). Praha: IADIS Press, 2013, pp. 61-64, ISBN: 978-972-8939-94-6. |
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Modern Informetric Methods for the Evaluation of Scientific Research | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Habilitation thesis, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, 2013. |
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Science Evaluation in the Czech Republic: The Case of Universities | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Societies, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 266-279, 2013. |
ISSN: | 2075-4698 |
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Semantic Markup for Web Applications | |
Authors: | Martin Dostal, Dalibor Fiala, Karel Ježek |
Source: | Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer, Communication, Information Sciences, and Engineering (ICCCISE 2013), Paris, France, pp. 506 - 509, 2013. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, vol. 76, April 2013. ISSN: 2010-376X. |
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Suborganizations of Institutions in Library and Information Science Journals | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Information, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 351-366, 2013. |
ISSN: | 2078-2489 |
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Testing Ranking Algorithms on CiteSeer Data | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Global Journal of Advanced Engineering Technologies, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 176-180, 2013. |
ISSN: | 2277-6370 |
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Bibliometric analysis of CiteSeer data for countries | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Information Processing and Management, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 242-253, 2012. |
ISSN: | 0306-4573 |
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Time-aware PageRank for bibliographic networks | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Journal of Informetrics, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 370-388, 2012. |
ISSN: | 1751-1577 |
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Mining citation information from CiteSeer data | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Scientometrics, vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 553-562, 2011. |
ISSN: | 0138-9130 |
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Web Mining Methods for the Detection of Authoritative Sources: Theory and Practice | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | VDM Verlag, Saarbruecken, 2009. (ISBN 978-3639173376) |
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Exploration and Evaluation of Citation Networks | |
Authors: | Karel Ježek, Dalibor Fiala, Josef Steinberger |
Source: | Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7727-6315-0, pp 351-362, Toronto, Canada 2008 |
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PageRank for bibliographic networks | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, François Rousselot, Karel Ježek |
Source: | Scientometrics, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 135-158, 2008. |
ISSN: | 0138-9130 |
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In Czech: Využití struktury webu pro vyhledávání autoritativních institucí a osob | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Karel Ježek, François Rousselot |
Source: | Proc. 6th Annual Conf. ZNALOSTI 2007, Ostrava, Czech Republic, pp. 300-303, 2007. |
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Ranking Algorithms For Web Sites: Finding Authoritative Academic Web Sites and Researchers | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, François Rousselot, Karel Ježek |
Source: | Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. Web Information Systems and Technologies WEBIST'07, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 372-375, 2007. (ISBN 978-972-8865-78-8) |
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Web Mining Methods for the Detection of Authoritative Sources | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | PhD thesis, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic and Louis Pasteur University Strasbourg, France, 2007. |
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Extracting Information from Web Content and Structure | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Roman Tesař, Karel Ježek, François Rousselot |
Source: | Proc. 9th Int. Conf. on Information Systems Implementation and Modelling ISIM’06, Přerov, Czech Republic, pp. 133-140, 2006. (ISBN 80-86840-19-0) |
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Finding Authoritative Researchers on Academic Web Sites | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Karel Ježek, François Rousselot |
Source: | Proc. CISE'06, Cairo, Egypt, Enformatika Transactions on Engineering, Computing and Technology, Vol. 17, pp. 74-79, 2006. |
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A comparison of two algorithms for discovering repeated word sequences | |
Authors: | Roman Tesař, Dalibor Fiala, François Rousselot, Karel Ježek |
Source: | The 6th International Conference on Data Mining, Text Mining and their Business Applications (Data Mining 2005), Skiathos, Greece, ISBN 1-84564-017-9, pages121-131, WIT Transaction on Information and Communication Technologies, ISSN 1743-3517. |
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Document retro-conversion for personalized electronic reedition | |
Authors: | Abdel Belaïd, André Alusse, Yves Rangoni, Hubert Cecotti, Fady Farah, Nicolas Gagean, Dalibor Fiala, François Rousselot, Henri Vigne |
Source: | Proc. International Workshop on Document Analysis (IWDA 2005), Kolkata, India, pp. 193-218, 2005. |
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Web Mining and Its Applications to Researchers Support | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | Technical report no. DCSE/TR-2005-06, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, 2005. |
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Retrieving Citations on the Web | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Karel Ježek |
Source: | Proc. Int. Conf. on Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support ICKEDS’04, Porto, Portugal, pp. 481-488, 2004. |
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A System for Citations Retrieval on the Web | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala |
Source: | MSc thesis, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, 2003. |
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Projects:

Data Mining for Computer Networks Security | |
Authors: | Michael Heigl, Laurin Doerr, Dalibor Fiala |
Desc.: | Novel data mining methods for the enhancement of computer networks security using advanced outlier detection techniques on streaming data are investigated. |

Social Networks Analysis | |
Authors: | Karel Ježek, Dalibor Fiala, Michal Nykl |
Desc.: | Application of the PageRank algorithm and its modifications to the exploration of network structures, particularly citation and co-autorship networks. |

Extracting Information from Web Content and Structure | |
Authors: | Dalibor Fiala, Roman Tesař, Karel Ježek |
Desc.: | This project deals with classification of Web documents and determination of authoritative Web sites. It was supported in part by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic under grant FRVS 1347/2005/G1. |