Research Search Tool

Abstract

A novel website-based tool for exploring research is presented. Inspired by random restart hill climbing, the tool helps users find peaks of interest in research areas by presenting a pseudo-random article from the CORE open access research collection then allowing users to quickly narrow their search space by selecting keywords from works that interest them. The goals of this tool are primarily introspective, helping users discover research areas about personally interesting topics in a timely way and aiming to solve the problems associated with not selecting areas of research due to a lack of inspiration. item_description: An article describing a way to search the space of research and inspiration using a Random Restart Hill Climbing inspired technique.