Spring Semester 2008:
Dr. Kerschberg is teaching:
INFS 640 - Introduction to E-Commerce and
INFS 770 - Knowledge Management for E-Business.

I have adopted a new book for INFS 770 entitled
e-Business: Organizational and Technical Foundations, by M.P. Papazoglou and P.M.A. Ribbers published by Wiley.
Here is a link to it at Barnes and Noble online.

Fall 2007:
Dr. Kerschberg offered a new course,
INFS 797/IT 803 -- Intelligent Agents and the Semantic Web,

The course was conducted using WebCT.
Click here for the syllabus, readings and schedule for the course.
Posted: May 29, 2007 11:22 AM

October 3, 2006: Drs. Kerschberg, Kim and Scime award Patent Number 7,117,207, "Personalized Semantic Taxonomy-Based Search Agent."

The abstract of the patent is as follows:
Disclosed is a search mechanism comprising: accepting search intent information from a user having a search intent; creating a semantic taxonomy tree having term(s) representative of the search intent information; augmenting the term(s) with associated concepts derived from the term(s) using existing terminological data; associating a weight with at least one of the term(s); obtaining user preference intent; determining root term(s); transforming the semantic taxonomy tree to a Boolean search query; submitting the Boolean search query to searcher(s); receiving at least one search result(s); interpreting the search result(s); requesting page(s) specified the search result(s); receiving the page(s); generating ranked results; presenting the ranked results to the user; presenting the semantic taxonomy tree to the user; accepting user feedback from the user; and using the user feedback to update the user preference intent.

An article on WebSifter patent appeared on January 11, 2007 in the Mason Gazette.

Click on this link to view the patent.

March 16, 2006: The E-Center for E-Business has been renewed for a three-year period.