COMP
8390 (60-539-01 )
WINTER 2026 Announcements.
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Course Web Page
can be accessed through: https://brightspace.uwindsor.ca/d2l/login
Or https://cezeife.myweb.cs.uwindsor.ca/courses/60-539/539index.htm
Classes: Mon : 2:30 – 5:20pm in Room :
ER Room for Comp 8390
Office hours: Mons. 11:00am –
11:50am; Tues. 3:00pm – 3:50pm, will be held in my CS office.
Get the course information through the link Course information Volume 1.
Get more course information through the link More
course information Volume 2
Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Hello Winter 2026 Comp 8390 Students,
Welcome and see you in class
coming Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 at 2:30pm in the ER
classroom specified in Brightspace (2125).
Classes: Mon :
2:30 – 5:20pm in ER classroom.
Office hours: Mons. 11:00 – 11:50am; Tues.
3:00pm – 3:50pm,
Course Web Page can be accessed through: https://brightspace.uwindsor.ca/d2l/login
Or https://cezeife.myweb.cs.uwindsor.ca/courses/60-539/539index.htm
Get the course information through the link Course information Volume 1.
Get more course information through the link More course information Volume 2
RECOMMENDED Materials:
C.I Ezeife, Course Notes for Comp 8390, Non-Traditional Database Systems: Data
Warehousing and Mining, University of Windsor, Winter 2026.
Course
notes can be downloaded from the notes page of this site.
Reference Materials:
1. Jiawei Han, Jian Pei, and Hanghang Tong. Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques,
published by Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, 2022, Fourth Edition, isbn: ISBN 9780128117606). Cost: Amazon: $107.17; Elsevier: $96.84; Indigo: $133.50; VitalSource: Etext: $79.00 **** Most comprehensive and useful to read for warehousing and
mining.
2. Wilfried Lemahieu,
Seppe Vanden Broucke, Bart Baesens. Principles of Database Management: The
Practical Guide to Storing, Managing and Analyzing Big and Small Data,
Cambridge University Press, 2018. isbn:
978-1-107-18612-5. *** New book in the bookstore and useful for the
traditional database reviews and NOSQL databases.
3. Raghu Ramakrishnan/ Johannes Gehrke,
Database Management Systems, third edition, WCB/McGraw-Hill, 2003, isbn: 0-07-246563-8.
** Any other undergrad DB book ok too, for Database overview.
4. Margaret H. Dunham, Data Mining -
Introductory and Advanced Topics, published by Pearson Education, 2003. isbn 1-13-088892-3. (available in the library)
Research papers in Data Warehousing and
Mining from a variety of journals and conference proceedings including:
C.I. Ezeife and Yi Lu, “Mining Web Log sequential Patterns with Position Coded
Pre-Order Linked WAP-tree”, the
International Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD),
Vol. 10, No. -, pp. 5-38, Kluwer Academic Publishers, June 2005.