Announcements


COMP 8390 (60-539-01 )  WINTER 2025  Announcements.

PLEASE, CHECK THIS PAGE FOR COURSE INFORMATION AND EVENTS.  Just scroll down to read from recent to old announcements.


 

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

Important and urgent class announcements are also sent to students through their UWindsor email accounts. Please, check your UWindsor email account regularly.

 

Classes: Mon : 2:30 – 5:20pm  in Room : ER Room for Comp 8390

 

To attend class, Log on to Brightspace https://brightspace.uwindsor.ca/d2l/login. Then, click on Virtual classroom, and join Comp 8390 Class session for the day.

 

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 Friday, January 3, 2025.

Hello Winter 2025 Comp 8390 Students,

Welcome and see you in class coming Monday, Jan. 6, 2025 at 2:30pm in the ER classroom specified in Brightspace.

Classes: Mon : 2:30 – 5:20pm in ER classroom.

Office hours: Mons. 11:00 – 11:50am; Tues. 3:00pm – 3:50pm,

If it becomes necessary to move any class online, to attend any possible online class, Log on to Brightspace LMS (learning management system). https://brightspace.uwindsor.ca/d2l/login.

Then, click on Virtual classroom, and join Comp 8390 Class session for the day.

 

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

Important and urgent class announcements are also sent to students through their UWindsor email accounts. Please, check your UWindsor email account regularly.

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 2025.

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.