CIS9616 - Principles of Data Management

Instructor

• Vasileios Megalooikonomou, email: vasilis@temple.edu
• Office: 314 Wachman Hall, phone: 215-204-5774
• Office Hours: W 4-5:30pm, and by appointment

Class

• Meets: W 5:30-8:00pm, room: Tuttleman Learning Center 305A

E-mail

• E-mail will be used to send messages about the homework, presentations, projects, and other topics. I expect that you read your email regularly. Otherwise you may miss important information. Please send an email to vasilis@temple.edu with your preferred email address so that I put you on a mailing list.

Course Syllabus

Schedule

Announcements

• Please send me an email to sign up for a presentation
• Sign-up list for presentations
• The midterm exam is on Oct. 17

Presentations

• Papers and presentations
• Guidelines for presentations
• Hints for giving a good talk (by Bruce Donald at Dartmouth College)

Other documents available electronically

• Lectures
• Slides
• Other material
• Homework
• Midterm study guide
• Final exam study guide
• PostgreSQL
• SQL and database management
• Oracle online documentation
• Oracle Database at Temple
• Handouts

Other resources

• ACM SIGMOD (Management of Data).
• Very Large Data Bases.
• ACM SIGKDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).
• Software: Tools for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Machine Learning Database Repository at UCI
• Data Mining in Molecular Biology Databases
• IBM - QUEST Data Mining Project
• Free/public database software
• StatLib (statistical tools and datasets)
• Numerical Recipes in C (e-copy)
• Heikki Mannila's Papers at the University of Helsinki.
• Shinichi Morishita's Papers at the University of Tokyo. Also, his Recent Papers on genome mining.
• CACM, Nov., 1996 Special Issue on Data Mining.
• Univ. of Washington/Microsoft Summer, 1997 Institute on data mining.
• J. Gehrke. W.-Y. Loh, R. Ramamkrishnan, Tutorial on Classification from the 1999 KDD Conference. PDF.