MS E-commerce

September 2007: Dr. Kerschberg, and his colleagues Dr. Wooju Kim and Dr. Anthony Scime were awarded a patent:
Patent Number: 7, 117,207 B1

Date of Patent: October 3, 2006

Title: Personalizable Semantic Taxonomy-Based Search Agent

Abstract:

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.

Please download the patent from here.

To learn more about the theory and practice associated with the patent, please refer to the papers below. The references have links to the PDF version of the papers.

L. Kerschberg, W. Kim, and A. Scime, "A Semantic Taxonomy-Based Personalizable Meta-Search Agent," in Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, vol. LNAI 2564, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, W. Truszkowski, Ed. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2003, pp. 3-31.

Kim, W., Kerschberg, L. and Scime, A. Learning for Automatic Personalization in a Semantic Taxonomy-Based Meta-Search Agent. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), 1 (2).

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Ms. Jennifer Murphy

Phone: (703) 993-8773

George Mason University Office of Technology Transfer.
January 22, 2007: For students planning for Summer 2007, Professor Kumar Mehta of the School of Management that MBA 734 will be offered once a year.
January 22, 2007: The MBA Program has limits on the number of non-MBA students who may enroll in a course section, so you should plan to enroll in a course section as soon as the registration period begins. Here is a link describing the enrollment procedures.
February 21, 2006: The Health Care Information Systems Certificate has been updated. Please see the Specialized Courses page under the Program Description link.
November 8, 2005: For those students who are planning their courses for Spring 2006, here is a link to a table of Core and Elective Courses. Please contact Dr. Kerschberg to let him know that you plan to take one or more of the italicized courses for your electives.
Dr. Menascé has been appointed Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the School of Information Technology and Engineering.
Dr. Larry Kerschberg has been appointed Director of the MS in E-Commerce Program, (Saturday, September 3, 2005).
Mr. Ralph S. Terkowitz, CTO of the Washington Post Company and Special Partner of ABS Capital Partners gave the invited lecture "A Look at Technology Trends that Will Impact Media & Communications Over the Next Decade" at the EC 512 class on March 15, 2004.
The director of the MS in E-commerce program, Dr. Daniel Menasce, gave a keynote address at the IADIS WWW/Internet 2003 International Conference on November 5, 2003, in Algarve, Portugal.
The director of the MS in E-commerce program, Dr. Daniel Menasce, was elected in June 2003 for a 2-year term as Vice-Chair of ACM's Special Interest Group in E-commerce (SIGecom).
Mr. Justin Taft was the first graduate in May 2003 of the MS in E-commerce program. Mr. Taft came to us through our agreement with UVA's Northern Virginia Center. Congratulations Justin!
On April 14, 2003 the talk "Microsoft .NET technology and demonstration" was given by Ranjan K. Sen, Academic Developer Evangelist (Mid-Atlantic) and Terry Stowers, Academic Developer Evangelist (South-East), both from Microsoft.
The director of the MS in E-commerce program, Dr. Daniel Menasce, became a member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Internet Computing.
Mr. Mark Fabro, Chief Security Scientist at AMS, gave the guest lecture "Internet Vulnerabilities and Attack Methodologies" at the EC 512 class on March 3, 2003.
The director of the MS in E-commerce program, Dr. Daniel Menasce, is the General Chair of the 2003 ACM Conference on E-commerce.
The director of the MS in E-commerce program, Dr. Daniel Menasce, presented a Webcast talk "Capacity Planning for Web Services," on October 22 at 2:00PM EDT through searchWebServices.com.
Mr. Mitch Shue, Director, Advanced Technology Group, and Ms. Lavanya Kanchanapalli, Intern, Advanced Technology Group, at webMethods gave a joint guest lecture at the EC 511 class on October 7, 2002, on Web Services Realities.
The director of the MS in E-commerce program, Dr. Daniel Menasce, gave the keynote address "Using Performance Models to Dynamically Control E-commerce Sites" at the First Seminar on Advanced Research in Electronic Business in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 7-8, 2002.
The MS in E-commerce program sponsored a panel discussion of the DC/Baltimore chapter of the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Association. The event was held on June 6, 2002, from 7:00AM to 11:00AM at the Johnson Center, GMU.
George Mason University and University of Virginia's Northern Virginia Center signed an agreement that allows graduates from UVA's Certificate in E-commerce with a minimum GPA of 3.0 to transition into GMU's MS in E-commerce program. Under the agreement, these students must still apply to GMU's program, but will not be required to take the TOEFL, nor the GRE, GMAT, or LSAT. Once admitted into GMU's program they will be allowed to transfer 12 credits equivalent to EC 511, EC 522, EC 531, and EC 541.
The director of the MS in E-commerce program, Dr. Daniel Menasce, became an associate editor of Elsevier Science's journal Electronic Commerce Research and Applications.
The director of the MS in E-commerce program, Dr. Daniel Menasce, chaired the panel "E-commerce Education" at the 2001 ACM Conference in E-commerce held on October 14-17, 2001, Tampa, Florida. Other panel members were: Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT; Stuart Feldman, IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce; Yoav Shoham, Stanford University; and Michael Wellman, University of Michigan.

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