CSc 8711, Databases and the Web
Term Paper

Topic should be related to the general subject of Databases and the Web and general enough for each of the students in the group to work in a specific aspect of the topic. Final work should be written as one single paper. The groups along with presentation dates are as follows:

Group 1 (April 20, 2004): Jianwei Zhuang, Hong Yang, Mateena Syeda
Topic: Collaborative Virtual Terminal (C-VT) as an XML Web Service

Group 2 (April 20, 2004): Audsanee Supaneedis, Jacques Dubuisson
Topic: Object-Relational DBMS And XML

Group 3 (April 22, 2004): Xiujuan Chen, Yuanchen He
Topic: Database Constraints in XML

Group 4 (April 22, 2004): Smruti Kalgaonkar, Shilpa Panaganti
Topic: Querying and Searching in P2P Systems

Group 5 (April 27, 2004): Alka Mukker, Mohini Padhye
Topic: Automating XML Transformations

Group 6 (April 27, 2004): Yan Liu, Sunsook Jung
Topic: Semantic Environment for Web Service Registration

Group 7 (April 29, 2004): Van Vo, Trieu Nguyen
Topic: XML and BioInformatics Applications

Group 8 (April 29, 2004): Guangzhi Zheng, Nova Ahmed
Topic: Distributed Data Integration Based on Web Services and Grid

Each group needs to submit a title, a short abstract stating the research area being investigated, and a bibliography in your group's webpage: http://tinman.cs.gsu.edu/~cscxxxx/paper/. The bibliography must include at least the papers, books, links to online resources you are planning to discuss and use. If you can get electronic version of the documents, download and list them in the same web page so that instructor and other students can access and read. Additional references may be added later on. Final paper due date is May 4 (Tuesday).

Some possible topics are:

• XML and Bioinformatics Applications
• Indexing of XML Data
• Database Constraints in XML
• XML to Relational/Object mappings
• Data Stream Management
• Search Engines

Resources:

• Digital libraries, books, online resources.

Evaluation:

• The final grade of your paper/report will be based on the quality of your paper and your presentation. Each student should participate in group presentation (peer evaluation will also be utilized to assess contribution). Good style and correct use of the English language are required; you will lose points for a poorly organized paper. However, it is the technical content that will be weighed most heavily. Your paper must not be a mere summary or a restatement of the discussions in your references. You must, at the very least, compare and contrast them in the light of the topic you have selected. It is your responsibility to fill your paper with information and to convince me, with as much evidence as possible, that you have thought hard and constructively about your topic.

Paper length:

• The paper should be exactly long enough to say what needs to be said, but no longer. It is hard to say anything substantive in less than fifteen (15) pages.