Overview

Intelligent systems researchers are developing models, techniques, and tools to improve our ability to generate, manage, search, and mine information and knowledge. Research areas include software agents, heterogeneous databases, supply chain networks, complex engineered networks, web agents and web search. The research team hosts CiteSeer, the very popular specialty search engine and digital library for computer and information science literature. Research of the intelligent systems group has been featured in popular press and prestigious research publications such as Science and Nature. Various agencies such as NSF, DARPA, and Microsoft fund the activities of the group.

Research Labs/Areas

Global Information Systems Research Lab �¯�¿�½ Lead Faculty: Professor Hurson

Within the scope of broadcast based services, this group's research is focused on semantic organization of data entities on single and parallel broadcast channel(s), application of indexing on broadcast channel(s), and scheduling of data retrieval from parallel broadcast channels in an attempt to reduce the network latency, access latency, and power consumption. Within the scope of on demand based services, their research is focused on distributed heterogeneous databases, application of software agent technology, security, caching technology, multimedia databases, data integration and fusion, query and transaction processing in an infrastructure that supports both wired and wireless communication with a goal to manage resources (i.e., power) and improve performance.

Laboratory for Intelligent Agents �¯�¿�½ Director: Professor Yen

The Laboratory for Intelligent Agents has two research focuses. First, it aims to develop team-based agent technologies that facilitate a distributed team to collaborate and make decisions in a dynamic environment by proactively exchanging and fusing information based on a "shared mental model" about the team. The second focus of the lab is to develop market-based agent technologies for addressing critical issues regarding negotiation, resource allocation, supply chain management, and web services.

Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Quality (LISQ) �¯�¿�½ Director: Professor Kumara

The objective of the lab is in essence to study survivability of large-scale, complex systems. Professor Kumara specializes in software agents, supply chain networks, and complex engineered networks. Through three NSF sponsored projects, he and his students are investigating complexity in largescale networks including chaotic behavior and generating methods to control complexity. The details of his research can be found at: www2.ie.psu.edu/Kumara/Research/lisq/.

The Intelligent Information Systems Research Laboratory (IIS) �¯�¿�½ Director: Professor Giles, Vice Director: Professor Wang

The Internet, the Web, and its successors combined with the rapidly increasing digitization of information and Moore's Law has generated a revolution in information access and creation which reaches an ever-increasing portion of humanity. The Web now encompasses more content than all the text in the Library of Congress. The goal of the Intelligent Information Systems Research Laboratory is to explore and support all levels of research that will improve and enhance our ability to generate, manage, search, and mine information and knowledge. Current research covers Internet database design and analysis, mobile Web computing, Web mining and navigation, Web agents, novel and intelligent Web tools, multimedia retrieval, Web and internet models, Web usage, automatic content analysis and digital libraries, Web search, niche search engines, semantic web, scientific databases, data mining, and information retrieval. For more information, visit: http://iis.ist.psu.edu.