The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $100,000 EAGER Project Grant under its CFDA 47.041 Engineering program to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to establish foundational AI and network science-based strategies for representing data, building search capabilities, and facilitating collaboration among small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs). The research aims to create dynamic, flexible, and scalable graph database models to help identify relevant SMEs, form efficient production clusters, and enhance the domestic manufacturing base to improve national security and self-sufficiency. The project will develop machine learning and economic theory-based algorithms to optimize SME search and coalition formation, addressing data representation, search mechanisms, SME composition, and federated learning approaches. The award period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025.
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