Student Projects

*** Graduate Research Assistanship available for 2011-2012 ***
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•      Graduate and undergraduate students    
  •    If you are interested to pursue research with us, please send us an email.
  
  
•      Suggested Topics
  
  •     Comparative analysis of the penetration levels of semantic web technologies in e-Learning
  •     Extraction and visualization of semantic information
  •     Harnessing the power of Web 2.0 and community participation to enable the creation of     a new generation of content-based applications
  •     Community formation, discovery, and social structure exploitation in e-learning systems
    
  •     Community formations and emerging semantics
    
  •     E-learning environments utilizing Web2.0 technologies and social computing
    
  •     Collaborative building of learning repositories based on distributed version control
    
  •     Supporting collaborative work within distributed communities of practice
    
  •     Motivation in building sustained resource-sharing online communities
    
  •     Ontological approaches to structuring and managing resources in digital collections
    
  •     User Modeling in online communities
    
  •     Intelligent learning environments
    
  •     Collaborative learning environments
    
  •     Virtual art collections
    


•       Current and Past Graduate Students' Master Theses and Projects    
  •    Rob Drayton
        An Approach to Folksonomy & Ontology Integration through Visualization
  •    Yi Zhu
        A Framework for Sharing Learning Resources
  •    Dhanya Shyamjith
        Personalized Navigation and Search in a Topic Map Based Virtual Art Gallery
  •    Hande Aksac
        Collaborative Activities through Using Semantic Wiki
  •    Sandesh Makam
        Audio Player Plug-In for the TM4L Editor
  •    John McDonald
        Topic Maps For Mobile Computing
  •    Teketia Friend
        Technology of Topic Maps: Tools for the Classroom
  •    Dandan Wang
        Retrieving Information in Topic Maps
  •    Steven Roberson
        Semi-Automatic Ontology Extraction to Create Template Topic Maps
  •    Christopher Whitefield
        Evaluation of Topic Maps Editors
  •    Willie Mae Frazier
        A Topic Map-based Java Portal
  •    Yanli Sun
        A Topic Map Authoring Tool for E-Learning