Dr. Bamshad Mobasher and
Dr. Jane Cleland-Huang received an NSF grant from the division of Information Integration and Informatics for $499,892 over three years to investigate the application of data mining techniques and recommender systems technologies within the software engineering process. This research represents a synergy between Dr. Mobasher's work in Web mining and Dr. Cleland-Huang's work in Systems and Software Engineering. The research is intended to develop tools and algorithms that help automate requirement elicitation and management processes in large projects. This is a timely project designed to address the needs of an increasing number of organizations who adopt collaborative tools such as wikis and forums to gather and manage requirements. The proposed research is expected to deliver a robust library of algorithms and tools to augment the functionality of wikis, forums, and other specialized management tools used in the requirements domain.