pages chapter 8 335-354 and 370-376 (grid-based methods)
Important Database Conferences
International Conference Conference
on Data Engineering (ICDE)
International Conference on Very Large
Databases (VLDB)
International
ACM
SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data
Important KDD Conferences
KDD
PKDD
ICDM
2003 Projects and Graded Homeworks
2003 Specification Graded
Homework1 (due We., March 19 (electronically) and Tu., April 1 (hard copy
only))
Specification
Graded Homework2 2003 (due on Saturday,April 26, 2003, 11p (electronic
submission)) new!!
2003 Project1
(due Sa., March 15, 2003, 9p; electronic submission)
2003 Project2
(student presentations are scheduled for April 17 and April 22, 2003).
Spring 2003 Project2 Groups
Decision Tree Learning
for Large Data Sets --- Group1
Decision Tree Learning on Very
Large Data Sets --- Group2
Clustering Large Data Sets
Group
Genomic Database
Group
Querying and
Mining Data Streams Group
Iceberg Queries Group
Grading
There will be an undergraduate material review exam, a midterm
exam, and a final exam. Each student has to have a weighted average of
74.0 or
higher in the exams of the course in order to receive a grade of "B-" or better
for the course. Students will be responsible for material covered in the
lectures and assigned in the readings. All homeworks and project reports are due
at the date specified. No late submissions will be accepted after the due date.
This policy will be strictly enforced. Course grades will be computed
using a weight of approx. 72% for the exams, and a weight of 28% for the
homeworks/assignments/group projects.
Translation number to letter grades:
A:100-90 A-:90-86 B+:86-82 B:82-77
B-:77-74 C+:74-70
C: 70-66 C-:66-62 D+:62-58 D:58-54 D-:54-50 F: 50-0
Only machine written solutions to homeworks and assignments are accepted (the
only exception to this point are figures and complex formulas) in the
assignments. Be aware of the fact that our only source of information is what
you have turned in. If we are not capable to understand your solution, you will
receive a low score. Moreover, students should not throw away returned
assignments or tests.
Students may discuss course material and homeworks, but must take special
care to discern the difference between collaborating in order to increase
understanding of course materials and collaborating on the homework / course
project itself. We encourage students to help each other understand course
material to clarify the meaning of homework problems or to discuss
problem-solving strategies, but it is not permissible for one student to
help or be helped by another student in working through homework problems and in
the course project. If, in discussing course materials and problems, students
believe that their like-mindedness from such discussions could be construed as
collaboration on their assignments, students must cite each other, briefly
explaining the extent of their collaboration. Any assistance that is not given
proper citation may be considered a violation of the Honor Code, and might
result in obtaining a grade of F in the course, and in further prosecution.
CS lab: you are responsible to protect your own
files. If you leave files on computers and other students turn in these files as
their solution for course project, you are violating the university's academic
honesty code. One way, to prevent that your solutions are copied by other
students, is to edit and save all your sql files into your floppy disk (and run
the system from using the data on the floppy). Alternatively, you could create
local folders with your files on the hard drive and remove all files from the
folder before you logoff (you could even write a script that does the cleanup).
Communication with the teaching staff
We strongly encourage students to
come to my office hours or to talk to me directly after class. If a homework
clarification is posted after a student has completed an assignment, the student
should contact us as soon as possible to check if the assumptions s/he made are
going to be accepted.
Please do not e-mail us with grading questions. If you want us/me to
explain why I took points off, you can talk to me/us during our office hours.
Course Exams
UG Material Review Exam
Review sheet for the 2004 UG Review Exam
(to be given on Th., Feb. 26, 2004).
Solutions to
a Sample Exam0 (in
Word)
Number
Grades Review Exam
Review List for 2002
Exam0)
Midterm Exam
Exam1 (March 30, 2000)
(in Word)
2000
Midterm Solutions (in Word)
Solution Sketches April
2002 Midterm Exam
Final Exam
The 2002 final exam is scheduled for Tuesday,
May 6, 11a-2p in ... --- be aware of the room change!!
Review list for the 2002
Final Exam (new!!!)
2000 Final Exam (was
given on May 9, 2000)
Solution Sketches
Spring 2002 Final Exam (was given on May 7, 2002)
Database Qualifying Exam
The first part of the qualifying exam will be
the COSC 6340 final exam. The second part of the qualifying exam will be a
separate 90 minute exam that centers on the contents of 4 scientific papers and
on material that was covered in the midterm exam (but not in the final exam).
The second part is scheduled for Friday, May 9, 2003
10:30p-noon in room 315 PGH . 5 Scientific Papers for
the 2003 QE (you can checkout the papers for copying during my officehours;
but the papers can also easily be found by doing a websearch. Review List for Part2 of the
Qualifying Exam
Course Homeworks and Projects Spring 2000
Useful Links
last updated: May 17, 2004, 11a
