COMP
8390 (60-539-01 ) WINTER 2026 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
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,
March 25, 2026
Note the remaining scheduled class events below.
Steps for completing online SPTs
(student perception of teaching (formerly called SET)) in the next few days and
class are shown below.
SPTs provide students with an opportunity for
feedback regarding their course and instructor in order to enhance the
teaching/learning culture on campus.
To access and complete an online SPT:
1. In your web browser, preferably Google Chrome,
go to www.uwindsor.ca/uwinsitestudent.
2. Click the blue SIGN
IN TO UWINSITE STUDENT button.
3. On the Sign
in screen, enter (or select) your UWinID@uwindsor.ca.
Click the Next button.
4. On the Enter
password screen, enter your UWin
Account password. Click the Sign
in button.
5. On your Student
Homepage in UWinsite Student, click the My Academics tile.
6. Click Student
Perception of Teaching in the left navigation menu.
7. Select the appropriate term and click the Continue button.
8. In the STUDENT
PERCEPTION OF TEACHING box, click the Start button. Please note that the Start button is active
during the last 2 weeks of classes only. You will not be able to complete
your course SPT prior to this time or once your term has completed. SPTs
will show UNAVAILABLE if they are not active.
o
For courses that have
both an instructor and an academic coordinator, PLEASE
SELECT YOUR INSTRUCTOR'S NAME WHEN COMPLETING THE SPT.
Follow the instructions within the SPT in order
to complete and submit.
If you encounter a technical issue completing a
SPT through UWinsite Student, please submit a ticket here.
Note the remaining
scheduled class events can be found below. One class left on Mondays Mar. 30
(SPT and Week 4 Project presentations).
Then, all group/individual concluding project presentation in my office
at your scheduled time on Monday, Apr 6.
UPCOMING CLASS EVENTS
COURSE EVALUATION
|
Work |
Mark (out of 100%) |
|
Midterm exam (Mon, Mar. 2, 2026) |
25% (covers all lecture materials) |
|
Student seminar (Mon, Mar. 9 to Mar. 23) |
15% (graded 25% by students in the class and 75% by me) |
|
Seminar attendance and
contributions |
10% |
|
One Seminar report (due by Mon. Mar. 23) |
20% |
|
Project presentation (Mon,
Mar. 30) |
10% (graded 25% by
students in the class and 75% by me) |
|
Project content demo and
report (due Mon Apr 6) |
20% (includes project demo scheduled for Mon.,
Apr. 6) |
Dr. Ezeife, C.
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.