How to cite RapidMiner Studio for Scholarly Publications

sgenzer

I get this question fairly often so I am opening this up for discussion. One option could look something like this:

Mierswa, Ingo, and Ralf Klinkenberg. “RapidMiner Studio.” RapidMiner Account, 9.1.000 (rev: ef0090, platform OSX), RapidMiner, Inc., 12 Dec. 2018, rapidminer.com, https://my.rapidminer.com/nexus/account/index.html. Educational License edition run on MacBookPro13,3 (15-inch, 2016): OS 10.14.2 "Mojave", processor 2.7 GHz Intel Quad-Core i7, L2 cache 256KB per core, L3 cache 8MB, memory 16GB RAM, boot ROM version 251.0.0.0.0, SMC Version 2.38f7, graphics Radeon Pro 3455 2048 MB & Intel HD Graphics 530 1536 MB, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_144-b01) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.144-b01, mixed mode).

What do you think?

varunm1

@sgenzer Thanks for posting. I thought of asking this question as I just use name in my publications. In APA, software reference looks like this.

Mierswa, I., & Klinkenberg, R. (2018). RapidMiner Studio (9.1) [Data science, machine learning, predictive analytics]. Retrieved from https://rapidminer.com/

MartinLiebig

I was used to cite the old YALE paper from back in the days - is this old fashioned?

I mean this one:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2398260_Yale_Yet_Another_Learning_Environment

And i like github links

David_A

Hi,

I also normally use the YALE paper (like that in APA style):

Mierswa, I., Wurst, M., Klinkenberg, R., Scholz, M., & Euler, T. (2006, August). Yale: Rapid prototyping for complex data mining tasks. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (pp. 935-940). ACM.

Which could be a bit misleading, as there is no RapidMiner in the title.

Other good (and often used) sources to cite are either Predictive Analytics and Data Mining: Concepts and Practice with RapidMiner from Vijay Kotu or 
RapidMiner: Data Mining Use Cases and Business Analytics Applications from  Markus Hofmann and Ralf Klinkenberg.

The github link is nice, but problematic, as probably it's not the version used for the analysis.

For citing the software, I simply add a footnote like that: "available at www.rapidminer.com" 

sgenzer

thanks. All makes sense and likely depends a lot on where / for whom you are publishing.

Interesting that no one mentioned my inclusion of the tech specs of the machine on which RapidMiner is installed. IMHO for scholarly transparency and repeatability, shouldn't this also be included?

David_A

In theory I agree with you, but in reality I rarely see technical specs in computer/data science papers. At least it would be good practice to name the exact version used.

sgenzer

@David_A do you have some recent papers that I can look at as examples?

David_A

I just have a notification running for "RapidMiner" and the above mentioned YALE paper. Take a look:

https://scholar.google.de/scholar?as_ylo=2018&q=RapidMiner&hl=de&as_sdt=0,5

https://scholar.google.de/scholar?as_ylo=2018&hl=de&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&cites=8123454278324720182&scipsc=&scioq=Yale+rapidminer

sgenzer

awesome! Thanks @David_A!

varunm1

Hello, @mschmitz and @David_A Just want to confirm if I can cite software APA style for Automodel features that I used in my research or is there any relevant publication for feature selection in Auto model. I generally cite the below when I write about software used in other paper but just want to confirm as this is a feature selection technique. @sgenzer any suggestion for this?

Mierswa, I., & Klinkenberg, R. (2019). RapidMiner Studio (9.1) [Data science, machine learning, predictive analytics]. Retrieved from https://rapidminer.com/

Thanks,
Varun

IngoRM

Hi @varunm1,

For general citations of RapidMiner, the way how you did this is definitely acceptable.  Alternatively, you could also use the "official" YALE paper (YALE was the old name of RapidMiner): https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1150531

For unsupervised feature selection, the best paper to cite would be this GECCO paper here: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1144248

And for general multi-objective optimization in feature engineering, my PhD thesis would be the best citation: http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/auto?self=$Publication_fz5hgy8b

Hope this helps and thanks to all for giving this some thoughts,

Ingo

varunm1

Thanks @IngoRM. 

IngoRM

Not for that.  It is also a bit of a shameless plug for my own research work ;-)