1.1 STEERING GROUP AND FACULTY ASSOCIATES

We have established a Steering Group consisting of the above-named personnel, and have developed procedures for expanding our numbers through the designation of Faculty Associates, whose interests overlap with those of the RDLDL, and of two classes of Graduate Associates, whose interests match those of the lab.

1.2 GRADUATE ASSOCIATES

1.2.1

1.2.2

All members of the ISC are encouraged to suggest that appropriate graduate students apply for this support. Details may be found on the Web Site of the RDLDL. ( http://diglib.rutgers.edu/research/RDLDL)

1.3 OTHER ACTIVITIES

Activities currently underway include (1) development of an undergraduate course in DL (2) planning for a Seminar series for Graduate and Faculty Associates, to begin in the Spring (3) Consideration of a "Launch Event" for that Seminar, with one or more nationally prominent figures in the field as invited speakers.

1.4 RESEARCH PROPOSALS

* Data Fusion for Effective Information Retrieval. (PI: Kantor. FUNDED $90K. 2 years. NSF). A study of the conditions under which the use of multiple search engines can be reliably expected to perform better than an "oracle" who simply uses the best of the engines each time. With: K.B. Ng of Florida State University (a July 1998 Rutgers SCILS PhD.)

* Viewpoint-Invariant Shape Indexing for Content-Based Image Retrieval, Army Research Office, Sven Dickinson (PI) and Suzanne Stevenson (co-PI), $35,000/1 year, awarded August, 1998.

* The Rutgers Digital Library Project: Human in the Loop. (PI. J. Flanagan; RDLDL members: Belkin, Dickinson, Hirsh, Kantor, Pylyshyn. $6.0Million. 5 Years NSF. Under Review. Details at: http://diglib.rutgers.edu/~kantor/nsf9863). This project involves 21 Faculty members from 2 campuses and numerous departments and units of the university.

* Adaptive Knowledge Networks. (PI: Kantor. $2.1M NSF. Under Review. Details at: http://diglib.rutgers.edu/~kantor/kdi.kn.complete.pdf). This project involves faculty from RUTCOR and SCILS, for the study of the impact of the "AntWorld" project, being developed by Kantor, Boros and Melamed, with support from DARPA.

* The Automated Creation and Use of Citation-Indexed Digital Libraries of Scientific Literature. (PI: Hirsh. $600K. NSF. Under Review. Joint with: Nevill-Manning, and Giles and Lawrence from NEC.

* A dynamically adaptive system for supporting multiple information seeking behaviors in digital libararies. (PI. Belkin. $600K 3 years. NSF. Under Review)

* Also, Hanson and Martin-Bly were informed by the McDonnell foundation of St. Louis that a Research and Study Group proposal will be funded (526k$/3 years) Title: "New Methods and Concepts in Functional Imaging". They report that " .... field of functional imaging will be examined and redefined. Research includes .... creation of WEB resources for a digital library of key studies and canonical results that can be used for algorithm development and benchmarking..."

2. SROA-2 Carry-over

2.1 User-Centered Internet

The UCI carries forward $26,000 of which 15.4 is tied to 1/2 line, for support of a post-doc. This may be matched with funds from Newark Psychology to complete a position for a programmer instead.

Internet Interface for Logical Analysis of Data

Key Personnel:

An Internet interface to the RUTCOR LAD software, to enable researchers anywhere in the world to use the evolving suite of LAD tools being developed at RUTCOR, has been developed with partial support from the SROA-2 User Centered Internet initiative. The necessary client software be found at the following URL:

http://zeus.rutgers.edu/~feher/public

There are two versions of the LAD interface:

Windows 95 platform: LAD.zip

Solaris op system: LADsolaris.tar.gz

Both contain everything needed to run LAD. To see them in action one must install this client program on one's own machine, which has to be connected to the Internet. The sample projects that can explored are named: sample1.lad AND sample2.lad

The data being analyzed is submitted by the client program over the Internet to the LAD engine running on the RUTCOR server. The results of the analysis are returned to the client program over the Internet, and the client program the displays them graphically.

the UCI has set aside $2400 (bringing the total to $12,000) for completion of this Web-based interface to the Logical Analysis of Data software developed by Hammer and Associates at RUTCOR.

Other UCI funds were used to support the development of the Rutgers DLI-2 proposal cited above, in the form of travel and related expenses for proposal participants.

2.2 HCI

As mentioned above, funds for one Graduate Assistant, slotted under the direction of Belkin, have been made available to support a funded GA (Yakov Keselman of CS), under the principal direction of Dickinson.