CS6093/Lectures

Week 1 - Jan 24

• Course overview (First day of classes!)

http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs6093/Lectures/lecture1.pdf

• Provenance and Workflows

http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs6093/Lectures/provenance-workflows.pdf

Readings

• Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities Susan Davidson and Juliana Freire. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2008. Tutorial resources

• Provenance for Computational Tasks: A Survey Juliana Freire, David Koop, Emanuele Santos, and Claudio T. Silva. In IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering, 2008.

• Querying and Creating Visualizations by Analogy. Carlos E. Scheidegger, Huy T. Vo, David Koop, Juliana Freire and Claudio T. Silva. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(6), pp. 1560-1567, 2007. Best paper in IEEE Visualization 2007.

Week 2 - Jan 31

• Provenance and Workflows (cont.)

http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs6093/Lectures/provenance-workflows.pdf

• Discussion about literature search

Readings

same as last week

Week 3 - Feb 7

• Information extraction: survey

http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs6093/Lectures/information-extraction.pdf

Announcements

• The topic winners were: Information Extraction, Deep Web, Relational Data on the Web, Web Schema Matching, NoSQL DB, Provenance in DB, Graph Indexing, Usable query interfaces

• I will email to you preliminary assignments tomorrow

Assignment

• Write a position paper for the article: ONDUX: on-demand unsupervised learning for information extraction

Readings

• A survey of approaches to automatic schema matching Rahm Erhard and Bernstein Philip, VLDB 2001

• A Brief Survey of Web Data Extraction Tools. Alberto H. F. Laender, Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Altigran Soares da Silva, Juliana S. Teixeira: SIGMOD Record 31(2): 84-93 (2002)

• ONDUX: on-demand unsupervised learning for information extraction. Eli Cortez, Altigran Soares da Silva, Marcos André Gonçalves, Edleno Silva de Moura: SIGMOD Conference 2010: 807-818

Some history and perspective:

• Data integration: the teenage years. A. Halevy, A. Rajaraman, J. Ordille. VLDB 2006.

• Generic Schema Matching, Ten Years Later. Philip A. Bernstein, Jayant Madhavan, Erhard Rahm: PVLDB 4(11): 695-701 (2011)

Week 6 - Feb 28

TBD

Week 8 - March 13

Spring break - no class

Week 9 - March 20

TBD

Week 15 - May 1

Project presentation