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 4 - Feb 14

Assignment

• Write 2 position papers for the article: one for each of the articles in the required reading for this week (see below)

Required Reading

• Peter Buneman, Sanjeev Khanna, Wang Chiew Tan: Why and Where: A Characterization of Data Provenance. ICDT 2001: 316-330

http://db.cis.upenn.edu/DL/whywhere.pdf

• • Presenter: Fernando Seabra
  • Rebuttal: Joe Miller (tentative)

• Graph Indexing: Tree + Delta >= Graph P. Zhao, J. X. Yu, and P. S. Yu. VLDB 2007.
  • Presenter: Nivan Ferreira
  • Rebuttal: Sergey Nepomnyachiy

Additional Suggested Reading

• A. Das Sarma, M. Theobald, and J. Widom. LIVE: A Lineage-Supported Versioned DBMS. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Heidelberg, Germany, June 2010.

http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/926/1/versioning-TR.pdf

• Total Recall | Oracle Database

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/focus-areas/storage/total-recall-whitepaper-171749.pdf

• Provenance in Databases: Past, Current, and Future W. Tan. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin.

• Closure-Tree: An Index Structure for Graph Queries H. He and A. K. Singh. ICDE 2006.

• Answering pattern match queries in large graph databases via graph embedding

Lei Zou, Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu and Dongyan Zhao http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs6093/Readings/graph-matching-vldbj2011

• Chenghui Ren, Eric Lo, Ben Kao, Xinjie Zhu, Reynold Cheng: On Querying Historical Evolving Graph Sequences. PVLDB 4(11): 726-737 (2011)

http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs6093/Readings/evolving-graphs-vldb11.pdf

• Algorithmics and Applications of Tree and Graph Searching D. Shasha, J. T. L. Wang, and R. Giugno. PODS 2002.

Week 6 - Feb 28

TBD

Week 8 - March 13

Spring break - no class

Week 9 - March 20

TBD

Week 15 - May 1

Project presentation