Bob Losee's Research, Teaching, and Advising areas:
(these are the areas where I would also be glad to conduct independent study courses)
Representing, organizing, classifying, and browsing information,
Natural language processing and text mining,
Retrieval performance measurement,
Information retrieval, filtering, search engines,
Information and communication,
Web navigation and organizing information,
Bibliometrics, Webmetrics, Scholarly Communication,
Material selection and collection management,
Machine learning, Adaptive systems, Personalization, Decision making,
Knowledge management and information management, along with cooperation and economics of information,
I'd be glad to serve as a Master's paper or Independent study advisor for graduate students in any of these areas. See here for information on doctoral dissertation committees.