Arijit Sengupta

Director of Educational Development
Computer Science, Indiana University

1. Courses and Academic duties
2. Research and Projects
3. Publications
4. WWW Database Projects
5. Non-research
6. My Résumé
7. Relevant URLs
8. Temporaries

Courses and Academic duties

Courses I have taught in the last four semesters:

• CSCI A114: Introduction to Databases
• CSCI A113: Data Analysis using Spreadsheets
• CSCI A201: Introduction to Programming 1
• CSCI A348: Mastering the World Wide Web
• CSCI C343: Data Structures
• CSCI B599: Teaching in Computer Science

Other duties:

• AI Assignment: I am working on the draft AI assignments for Fall 1999. They should be available shortly.
• MMCC: I am working on developing the material for Course E (Introduction to databases) for the Indiana University Multi-campus Modular Computing Curriculum (MMCC) program.
• Undergraduate Education Committee: I am serving in the undergraduate education committee, chaired by Chris Haynes.
• Admissions Committee: I am also serving in the Admissions committee for next year.

Research and Projects

• Query Language Design for Structured Documents

  My primary research interest on Structured documents grew out of the inspiration provided by Prof. Dirk Van Gucht. The present research is primarily to design a powerful yet elegant query language for retrieving information on Document databases encoded in SGML format. This query language would form the base for a complete Database System for structured documents. You can look at the final version of my proposal in HTML Format, or download the Postscript version (638 K) or the DVI version (68K). Note that the dvi file refers to two postscript figures which you can download separately: Figure 1 (240K) and Figure 2 (16K). A short summary of the research project is also available.

  If you would like to see my other recent publications, please look at my publication section

  We have recently obtained the PAT Software from OpenText and presently in the process of using it to query the English Poetry Database. I worked on a query interface to Pat for the Chadwyck Healey English Poetry Database, which eventually resulted in DocBase, a system for posing queries on structured documents. Note that if you are accessing this from a location outside IU, you will not be able to see the results of your query, since the results come from a copyrighted database. A similar interface can be looked up in The UVirginia Pat gateway. You can also obtain more information on other currently installed SGML tools in the department.

• Application of Databases in CBR (Case-based reasoning)

  My latest area of research is in applying database technology in problem-solving using Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). This is joint work with Prof. David Leake and David Wilson.

  For more information on this project, and a demonstration of the system that we are building, please look at the The CBDB page.

• SGML Database Interface Project

  This is a part of my thesis project, which involves building an interface for SGML databases. This project is currently in infancy, but some information on the interface and related information about java can be looked up at my java project page. This project has been replaced by the DocBase - QBT system.

• Text Track Implementation Project

  This project is a part of the coursework for the C690 course on management of multimedia data. The projects in this course are part of the Media Library Kiosk project.

Publications

Sandeep Purao, Veda Storey, Arijit Sengupta and Melody Moore. "Reconciling and Cleansing: An Approach to Inducing Domain Models" Accepted for publication at the Workshop on Information Systems and Technologies (WITS 2000), Brisbane, Australia, Dec 9-10, 2000.

Arijit Sengupta and Sandeep Purao. "Transitioning Existing Conetnt: Inferring Organization Specific Documents" Australian Journal of Information Systems 8:1, September 2000. p 91-99 (Extended version of the paper presented at XML Meets Business, 2000, below.)

Arijit Sengupta. "Database Concepts for marked-up textual documents" in Amita Chin, editor. Text Databases and Document Management: Theory and Practice. Idea Group Publishing. July 2000

Arijit Sengupta and Peng Xu. "An Approach for a Reuseable Electronic Commerce System Model" in Proceedings of the 4th Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI-2000). Orlando Florida, July 23-26, 2000.

Arijit Sengupta and Sandeep Purao. "Transitioning Existing Content: Inferring Organization-Sepcific Document Structures" in Proceedings of the conference on XML Meets Business Heidelberg, Germany, 4th May 2000. Selected for Best paper Award.

Arijit Sengupta. "The compleat closure: toward a unified view of structured document database objects" in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Systesm Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS '99). Volume 5, pp 269-273. Orlando, Florida. July 31-August 4, 1999

Arijit Sengupta, David C. Wilson and David B. Leake. "Constructing and Transforming CBR Implementations: Techniques for Corporate Memory Management. Proceedings of the Workshop on Practical Case-Based Reasoning Strategies for Building and Maintaining Corporate Memories, Third International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, Seeon, Germany, 1999. pp 9-18. (This is a revised version of the paper below.) In press.
(abstract | pdf | ps.Z)

Arijit Sengupta, David C. Wilson and David B. Leake. "On Constructing the Right Sort of CBR Implementation." Proceedings of the IJCAI-99 Workshop on Automating the Construction of Case Based Reasoners, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999. 5 pages. In press.
(abstract | pdf | ps.Z)

Jing Ma, Arijit Sengupta and David Wilson. "A framework for automated construction and transformation of case-based reasoning systems" Technical Report no. 525, Department of Computer Science, Indiana University. July 1999, 25 pages.
(abstract | 497K PS | 216K pdf)

Arijit Sengupta and Dirk Van Gucht. "A Low-complexity query language for marked-up documents." In preparation, May 1999.

Arijit Sengupta. "Toward the union of databases and document management: The design of DocBase." Accepted for publication in Proceedings: Conference on Management of Data (COMAD'98), Hyderabad, India, December 17-19 1998. Available in postscript [548K]. (Text Abstract)

Dennis Groth and Arijit Sengupta. "Introduction to database applications: a problem-solving approach." In progress. To be published by McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, December 1998.

Arijit Sengupta. "DocBase - A database environment for structured documents." Ph.D. Thesis, Computer Science Department, Indiana University, December 1997. Available in postscript [4.5M]. (Text Abstract)

Arijit Sengupta and Andrew Dillon. "Extending SGML to Accommodate Database Functions: A Methodological Overview." Journal of the American Society of Information Systems (JASIS), special issue on structured information/standards for document architectures. pages 629-637, July, 1997. Available in postscript [744K]. (Text Abstract)

Arijit Sengupta and Andrew Dillon. "Query By Templates: A Generalized Approach for Visual Query Formulation for Text Dominated Databases." in Proceedings: Conference on Advanced Digital Libraries (ADL'97), Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. pages 36-47. May 7-9 1997. Available in postscript [776K] (Text abstract)

Arijit Sengupta. "Standardizing the Querying Process with SGML: The SQL DTD." In Tommie Usdin and Debbie Lapeyre, editors, Proceedings of the SGML'96 Conference. Graphic Communications Association, pages 323-337, November, 1996. Available in SGML, also available in postscript [800K] (Text Abstract)

Arijit Sengupta. "Demand More from Your SGML Database! Bringing SQL Under the SGML Limelight." <TAG>, 9(4):pages 1-7, April 1996. Available in postscript.[352K] (Text Abstract)

Pradip Bose, Santanu Chaudhuri, and Arijit Sengupta. "Automated Verification of Printed Circuit Boards: A Fast AI Approach." In Vijay P. Bhatkar and Kiran M. Rege, editors, Frontiers in Knowledge Based Computing, Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Based Computing Systems (KBCS90), pages 155-164, December 1990.

WWW Database Projects

I started this just as an experiment with the Pat Project above, but turned out to be the start of a few major projects that I did. Anyhow, without further ado, here are the projects (note that some of them are restricted, so don't blame me if you can't get access)

• PAT Interface to the English Poetry Database:

  As discussed above, it is a query interface to the Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database, built as a gateway to the PAT software.

• International Career And Employment Network (ICEN):

  Again, a full-text implementation of the International Center's Career and Employment newsletter, will full-support for on-line posting and retrieval of newsletters with or without complex search conditions.

• APEC Student Professional Integration and Re-Entry (ASPIRE) Database:

  This is an on-line student database for Project ASPIRE. Features a Sybase database with on-line data entry, edit, delete, search. Also features an auto-addition scheme which allows bulk data to be added to the database automatically. Note that this is only meant for students from the Southeast Asian countries.

• Global Speakers Service (GSS) Database:

  This is also a sybase database, for speakers participating in the Global Speakers Service program, and features various types of data in multiple forms for viewing and retrieval, and auto-report generation on-line.

• Grants and Fellowships Database (GFD):

  A Sybase database from the International Research and Development (IRD) group of the Office of International Programs in Indiana University, featuring on-line posting, viewing, editing, searching, and generation of Grants and Fellowships postings.

• Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Scholarship application project:

  A searchable repository of Fellowship applications submitted by applicants, with a sybase backend that indexes primary parts of the applications.

My Resumé

If you are an employer, and you are intersted in my research area (document database systems - see the research section in my home page), I would like you to look at my resumé - which is available in the following formats:

• Plain text format
• HTML format
• Postscript format

Non-Research :-)

• Check out my batchmates! This is the great kgpcs92 home page.
• Table Tennis is my favorite game! If you play, and have some time - LET'S PLAY!
• You may be surprised, but I love motorcycles! Not the low riding touring bikes, but more of the sporty-looking street bikes. I am now with my third bike, and recently started writing about them. Check out my bikes in my love affair with motorcycles :-)

Places to go from here

• IU Computer Science Home Page
• IU Bloomington Home Page

Temporary things

• Pointer to my bookmarks for access from remote location.