Winter 2022 Comp 8920:  More Course Information Document Volume 2.

1.  More on Projects

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 Note that this information is also posted on the announcement page

of the course web page.

http://cs.uwindsor.ca/~cezeife/courses/60-592/

 

    Remember that project presentations will be made on

Tuesdays, April 12 and April 19.

 

    Each project (group or individual) is presented in roughly 5 to 10

minutes giving information on:

 

Project topic, work involved and importance

New things learnt for the project

Relevance to web data extraction and recommendations

Parts of projects completed and parts left to complete

Note that for group projects, each group member's contribution has to

be stated clearly. It is better if each member of the group

actually participates during the presentation.  Note that

all members of a project group might not necessarily get the

same mark if they do not contribute the same amount of work

and do not show the same level of understanding in the work

involved.

 

Note that research projects should clearly present the topic

with an example discussing a few techniques in the literature

already for solving this topic.  For example, a research in

Data Warehousing Cleaning, should clearly summarize what the

topic is about and present with an example about 2 or 3 methods

they already researched for handling data warehouse cleaning.

A comprehensive list of techniques must be included in the final

report that must have not less than 10 to 15 current and most

relevant references.

 

Question time takes between 3 and 5 minutes.

By your project presentation date, I expect that you have

completed at least 50% of the work involved in the project.

The complete project report and demonstration (if a system is built

or an algorithm implemented) has to be done by April 10th.

 

Project demonstration time for each project should be booked

for  Comp 8920 on Tuesday, April 26th. Project demo time slots

are: 2:30 - 3:00pm, 3:30 - 4:00pm, 4:00 - 4:30, 4:30 - 5:00pm, 5:00-5:30pm.

Reports should be submitted at least a day or two before demo.   If more

Time slots are needed, we shall create them.

 

Project Report

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    Report should not be more than 20 pages on 12 point, 1.5 or double line

spaced font and should include the following points:

(a) purpose of application,

(b) system designers and their contributions,

(c) database schema including constraints, business rules,

(d) summary of interface,

(e) features of the system built or studied

(f) installation guide,

(g) listing of all files involved in the application and their functions,

and relationships to each other.

(h) user manual and any other pertinent information.

 

 

1.   More on Seminars

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    Remember that seminars begin on Tuesday, March 22.  Refer back

to the seminar schedule list I gave to you for information on who

is presenting when and which papers to read in preparation.

Students are expected to grade seminar based on clarity, organization,

quality of talk and technical content.  Clarity judges how you

understand what the presenter is giving from the way they present it

(not based on your lack of concentration on what they are talking

about). Organization judges how cohesive (the flow or togetherness) of

the material taught (e.g., do they clearly tell you the topic, explain the purpose before discussing the solutions and results or do they

jump in and talk of results when you do not even know what the

topic is about. Efforts put into slide presentations also come in

here).  Quality of talk judges the correctness of the presentation

from the paper presented (that is, how well does the presenter

understand materials in this paper or are they providing wrong

information?).  Technical content judges level of difficulty of

the paper presented and efforts put in by the student.  Some

students avoid actually trying to understand and explain the

technical solution (algorithms) presented in the paper, but

rather spend too much time discussing purpose and performance

analysis.

 

Recall that the one research seminar report should be a maximum of 5 pages

in 12 point double line format for the two papers you are

supposed to summarize.  Hand in your one seminar reports on or after the day

your paper is presented. Last reports should be submitted

on the last day of seminar presentations.

 

You should also start to book the time slot for your project

Demo (that is delivery of the final project application).

 

 

2.   More on Test

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Test covers materials taught in the lecture part of course and distributed into 3 sections for i) data mining algorithms, ii) web data extraction algorithms and iii) web recommendation algorithms. The sample test handed out(or to be handed out) in class is a good model with a fairly good coverage of test materials.