CS 534P: Schedule

Week of: Monday Wednesday
September 5/7 No classes
September 12/14 Introduction & class outline - what data do you have?
slides
Rachel presents and leads discussion
Introduction to databases: part 1
Preliminary slides for next two classes
Rachel presents and leads discussion
Homework 1: design a database for your data
September 19/21 Introduction to databases: part 2
Rachel presents and leads discussion
Model Management Introduction
Rachel presents and leads discussion
Homework 1 due
September 26/28 Data integration
Homework 2: Conjunctive queries Solution.
Yi (Yvonne) Wang presents
Rachel leads discussion
Survey of schema merging for view integration and data integration
Kevin Yau presents
Yi (Yvonne) Wang leads discussion
October 3/5 Structural Conflicts in View Integration
Ranjeet Singh presents
Bill Li leads discussion

Homework 2 due - note this is an extension from the previous deadline Solution.
Project: teams must be formed
ontology merging
Shuan Wang presents
Ting Wang leads discussion
October 10/12 Three way merge
Jie Zhao presents "flexible object merging framework"
Bill Li presents "what is a file synchronizer"
Xun Sun leads discussion
Theoretical Aspects of Schema Merging
Rachel presents
Scott Helmer leads discussion
Project: two page proposal due
October 17/19 Midterm break; no class
October 24/26 Generic Merge
Rachel presents and leads discussion
Schema matching survey
Elaine Chang presents
Amit Singh leads discussion
October 31/November 2 A schema matching algorithm and an industrial report
Amit Singh presents
Shuan Wang leads discussion
Medical Ontology Matching
Heidi Lam presents
Jie Zhao leads discussion
Project: 5 page midterm status report due
November 7/9 Query discovery for schema mapping
Xun Sun presents
Eric Brochu leads discussion
Information capacity
Eric Brochu presents
Adebayo Banjo leads discussion
November 14/16 Changing a model from one metamodel to another
Ting Wang presents
Elaine Chang leads discussion
Description Logics
Dana Sharon presents
Kevin Yau and Ranjeet Suri lead discussion
November 21/23 Concept Base
Scott Helmer presents
Dana Sharon leads discussion
Model management revisited
Adebayo Banjo presents
Heidi Lam leads discussion
November 28/30 Project reports:
Ting
Scott - moved to April 7 due to illness
Dana
Project reports:
Jie and Shuan
Bill, Kevin, and Ranjeet
Eric and Heidi
April 5/7 Project reports:
Elaine
Yvonne
Amit and Banjo
Scott presents (rescheduled)
Introduction redux: How do databases handle your data?
Rachel presents and leads discussion
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