Cyberinfrastructure

Cyberinfrastructure research aims to support acquisition, search retrieval, integration, management, mining, storage, collaboration, and visualization of large-scale information in cyber space.

Cyberinfrastructure research covers many disciplines including science, the humanities, engineering, government, and commerce. Cyberinfrastructure is crucial to the modern scientific research endeavor and its progress by enabling and facilitating the creation of new scientific theories and knowledge. With integrated cyberinfrastructure, science becomes e-science. Cyberinfrastructure has many aspects from digital libraries and repositories to seamless integration with the users.

Research in cyberinfrastructure includes novel and advanced methods for data and information acquisition, access, management, mining, integration, social networks, information retrieval and search, visualization, and human-computer interface and cooperative work. Distributed computer, information, and communication technologies combined with the personnel and integrated components will provide a long-term platform that will empower the modern scientific research endeavor. Research thrusts in this area include infrastructure for computer and information science access, bibliographic mining, CiteSeerX, novel search, Web mining, information extraction for environmental chemistry, and cyberinfrastructure for supporting a group of international scholars sharing the use and image analysis of a high-resolution CT scanner.

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