X-Portal Technology for Scientific Discovery

Today's Web portals for science only provide sparse coverage of the communities they seek to serve, typically less than 5%, because comprehensive coverage is too hard to do. This project will develop a suite if tools (which we call the X-Portal technology, where X is the community to be served), to make comprehensive coverage workable. A number of clustering methods will be collected, tested and logically integrated. Commercial potential includes development of advanced clustering software to assist X-Portal efforts by other organizations, as well as contract development of specific X-Portals, plus training and research. Commercial Applications and Other Benefits: Public benefits include accelerating science by greatly increasing the use of the Web for scientific discovery