Award Abstract #0133124
CAREER: Scalable Search Engines via Adaptive Topic-driven Crawlers

NSF Org:	IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems
Initial Amendment Date:	March 19, 2002
Latest Amendment Date:	March 14, 2003
Award Number:	0133124
Award Instrument:	Continuing grant
Program Manager:	Maria Zemankova IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Start Date:	April 1, 2002
Expires:	October 31, 2003 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$89438
Investigator(s):	Filippo Menczer fil@indiana.edu (Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	University of Iowa 2 GILMORE HALL IOWA CITY, IA 52242 319/335-2123
NSF Program(s):	INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE MANAGE
Field Application(s):	0104000 Information Systems
Program Reference Code(s):	HPCC, 9216, 1187, 1045
Program Element Code(s):	6855

ABSTRACT

This research project will develop adaptive, personalized, topic-driven crawlers to help search engines. The current search engines do not scale in a dynamic environment. The proposed research will overcome this limitation. The research will utilize an autonomous agent-based approach to building new scalable algorithms. The career development plan will include integrating the results into the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. The students will also carry out projects using the results of this research.

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