Professor Bieber
(bieber@njit.edu)
Information Systems Division, CIS
Department
New Jersey Institute of
Technology
Version 0.2 - December 1, 2000
I currently am looking for masters project and senior project students to work on the following topics. Masters Thesis students could work on these projects, and also should look at the Ph.D. research projects posted on my Web site, as some of these could be done as a masters thesis.
If you are interested in finding out more information, please email both me and the project leader listed. Please attach:
Note that many of these projects are for groups of interested students.
Thank you!
Prof. Bieber
Digital libraries generally deal with storing and retrieving documents. This project is looking at setting up a digital library for a particular ACM Special Interest Group that has more than just the text documents found in the ACM Digital Library. For example, the digital library could contain books, journal articles, conference papers, audio tapes, videos, still pictures, course syllabi, and tutorials, among others.
More importantly, we want to provide many additional components and services than just documents. Components could include links, annotations, discussions, workflows, concept maps, and so forth. Each service would be "plug-ins" that provide one of these components, both with a repository and with methods to manage them.
Thus a major part of this project is creating the service-level architecture to enable this infrastructure.
To every extent possible we will comply with the Sante Fe Convention, which is defining digital library standards.
Fei Luo (fei.luo@bea.com) and Professor Bieber (bieber@njit.edu)
1. Java/Web programming including (Servlet, EJB, JDBC, HTML, etc.)
2. Some knowledge of application servers
NJIT has a lot of educational documents scattered throughout the various Web sites of its students, professors, departments, centers, etc. In addition, there are many documents in the library's on-line databases and digital libraries.
The goal of this project is to come up with a common interface over all of these various materials so that it "feels" like one coordinated set of information that the various "stakeholders" would find useful. These include students, teachers, department administrators, potential students and their parents, and educational researchers.
Project Leaders: Changbo Qiu (changbo@homer.njit.edu) and Professor Bieber (bieber@njit.edu)
This project would concern building a bibliographic database available through the Web. It would enable a workgroup (restricted by logon) to post various kinds of information on various kinds of research documents. There would be a friendly Web, form-based interface, a database back-end, and several different searching features.
Project Leader: Professor Bieber (bieber@njit.edu)
Many aspects of information systems concern system understanding and interface design. In Web applications, people interact with links. A link represents the relationships between (or among) its endpoints. Many relationships in information domains are implicit, and only become obvious through a systematic analysis. Therefore, many Web sites and applications are missing useful links, opening up opportunities for enhancing systems or providing third party services.
Most Web design methodologies assume you know the set of objects and links you want to include in your Web site. But coming up with this set is not a straightforward task. Relationship Analysis uniquely focuses on the relationships in a complex system or information domain. It provides a systematic approach to determining the set of relevant objects and links to include in the design of information systems applications, Web sites and Web interfaces to non-Web back-end applications, on-line course materials, educational software, etc.
Relationship Analysis is a practical brainstorming technique, based on a theoretical taxonomy of relationship types. Relationship Analysis helps the analyst determine a cluster of relationships around "elements of interest" in the system's domain. Elements of interest become the objects with anchors on your Web site. The relationships become the set of multiple links users access when clicking on each anchor. Providing a comprehensive "web" of links allows the user to explore the context around a particular element within an application, and thereby construct a more accurate mental model of it. A comprehensive set of links also allows the user to navigate more accurately according to his or her task and interests.
Relationship analysis also serves the system designer. By exploring the relationship structure within a domain, he or she will end up understanding that information domain much more deeply, and thereby should be able to develop a better application design.
This project would involve an extremely thorough relationship analysis of a complex information area, along with a limited implementation.
Project Leader: Professor Bieber (bieber@njit.edu)
This page: http://www.cis.njit.edu/~bieber/senior-masters-projects.html