Managing & Mining Scientific Data

B669: Topics in Database and Information Systems
Spring 2002

Instructor: Ed Robertson and Dirk Van Gucht
Class: 17:30-20:00 Monday, Lindley 115
Newsgroup: ac.csci.b669

Seminar Goal & Objectives

The goal of this seminar is exposure to and involvement in database research at IU and elsewhere.
The primary focus is expected to relate to scientific data, datamining, and associated topics; but the key factor is research.

Weekly Schedule

Date	Presenters and Topic	Readings
Jan. 7	Introduction, organizational session.
Jan. 14	Chris G. - Histogram Construction, All - White paper.
Jan. 21	Martin Luther King Day
Jan. 28	Cathy W., Dennis G. - Hiring talk practice
Feb. 4	Craig Stewart - projects with UITS Memo D. - PFAn
Feb. 11	Cathy W. - Metadata
Feb. 18	whitepaper
Feb. 25	Sun K. - Clustering Algorithms
Mar. 4	Cathy W. & Chris G. - Finding Interesting FD's
Mar. 11	Spring Break
Mar. 18	John S. - TBA
Mar. 25	Dirk VG. - TBA
Apr. 1	Jit S. - XML querys
Apr. 8	Dirk VG. - generalizing entropy
Apr. 15	Dennis G. - papers from SIGMOD/PODS 2002
Apr. 22	Chris G. & Bassem S. - Optimal Entropy Histograms

Links to Datamining Sites

Academic Programs
Data Miners at the University of Helsinki
Data Mining Institute, University of Wisconsin
DEVise: an Environment for Data Exploration and Visualization, University of Wisconsin
The Data Mine at U. Birmingham (UK), with many useful links including Other Sites Relevent To Data Mining
Machine Learning Repository at UCI
Industrial Sites
CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica) in Amsterdam: follow links for "Organization" and "Information Systems" (this site seems to generate URL's on the fly).
QUEST Data Mining Project at IBM Almaden
Mineset at SGI
TransBase HyperCube, which claims to be the first relational database system that fully integrates the UB-Tree, a multidimensional access method, into its kernel and query engine.
Student Projects and Sites
Rough Set tool from The Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology
SCDS Create your own data sets, anyway you like, Simon Fraser Univ.

Class Enrollment and Authorization

The minimal background is B461, B561, or the equivalent. B661 is recommended.

Send email to edrbtsn@cs.indiana.edu for authorization. Be sure to include your student ID number. If you have not already taken a class with me, please include a synopsis of your database experience.