Research Topics

Expertise is available within the group of information scientists at RAND on such topics as:

Object-oriented design and modeling;
Hypertext and hypermedia for documentation and presentation;
Biological and artificial neural nets, "genetic algorithms" and other "artificial life" approaches to modeling simulation and analysis;
Applications of expert system technology and other artificial intelligence topics;
List processing languages and applications;
Cryptography and data security;
Using computers for complicated algebraic and analytic manipulations;
Computer system networking;
Internet navigation and access, including gopher, Mosaic, WAIS, and World Wide Web services;
"Cluster computing" using dozens of RAND workstations tied together by a local area network to accomplish a computing task;
Data modeling, data encyclopedias, and "metadata" assistance in verification and validation (V&V) of software;
Geographic information systems (GIS) for spatial analysis and geographic presentation;
In-depth review of software and software designs, for RAND or clients;
Expert judgments about computer/information science technological trends.
Computational neuroscience and biomimetrics
Adaptive decision-making modeling and analysis

Research Highlights