Masaki Aono Affiliation Information and Computer Sciences Title Professor Fields of Research Knowledge data engineering Data mining Information Retrieval and visualization Degree Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Academic Societies ACM IEEE Society IPSJ IEICE JSAI E-mail aono@ics (Please append ".tut.ac.jp" to the end of the address above.) Research Outline Extracting useful information from the Web as a massive dataset, using texts, hyperlinks, images, and 3D objects, is my main focus of research. The following are some of the onging projects: (1) Conceptual search for patent data (2) Web mining (2-1) Web community mining (2-2) Information recommender (2-3) Outlier cluster discovery (2-4) Topic detection and tracking (3) Multimedia information retrieval (4) XML-based DB technology, Web services, and Semantic Web Laboratory's Web Site: http://www.kde.ics.tut.ac.jp/index_e.html Subject Title(Subject Code)