Computer Science Research

SIFTER: Information Filtering System for Digital Libraries

The broad aim of the project is to develop information agents based on advanced concepts and techniques from the domains of artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and distributed object computing. The basic functions supported by an agent would include culling information from complex resources that may reside in diverse locations and conducting analysis, synthesis, and customization according to dynamic requirements of the user.

The near term specific objectives are:

• dealing with heterogeneous information sources that may change over time
• handling shifting requirements and interest of users with minimal user involvement
• creating a robust agent architecture for reactive, proactive, and collaborative filtering
• supporting agent collaboration based on natural or artificial economic frameworks for multiagent tasks

With appropriate attention to scalability and efficiency, implementation of systems is carried out using JAVA and CORBA. http://sifter.indiana.edu

Project Presented By

Mukhopadhyay, Snehasis

Position:	Associate Professor
Mail:
Phone:	317-274-9732
Url:	http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~smukhopa/

Education Details

Research Interests

Associate Professor Mukhopadhyay has served as an Associate Director of the Bioinformatics Program in the IU School of Informatics ? Indianapolis from 2000 to 2006, and currently conducts research in the areas of Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Control, Neural Networks, Multi-Agent Systems, and Biocomputing. Dr. Mukhopadhyay holds degrees from Jadavpur University, India and the Indian Institute of Science, India as well as Master of Science and Ph.D. (1994) degrees in electrical engineering from Yale University. He is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient.

Palakal, Mathew

Position:	Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, IU School of Informatics at IUPUI
Mail:
Phone:	317-274-9735
Url:	http://regen.cs.iupui.edu/

Education Details

Research Interests

Dr. Palakal holds a B.S., an M.S., and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is currently the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the School of Informatics, Professor of Computer Science in the School of Science and the Director of Informatics Research Institute where he is leading numerous industry and community related projects. He is currently working on problems related to information management in the field of life sciences. Dr. Palakal has developed a system called BioMap that generates methods for analysis of biological data such as identifying biological pathways, providing computerized support for disease targeting and new drug discovery using biomedical literature documents. Dr. Palakal has served as PI or Co-PI on over 20 different research grants and received over $14.68M in external funding from sources such as NIH, NSF, IMLS, Eli Lilly & Co., Indiana 21st Century Grant, and Delco. He has published over 100 manuscripts in peer reviewed venues and given more than 30 invited presentations. He served as proposal reviewer for NSF and NIH and currently serves on the editorial board for a major international Bioinformatics Journal and on the Conference Committee of an International Conference related to Bioinformatics since 2004.