CSc 8711, Databases and the Web
Term Paper - Presentation and Report

Topic should be related to the general subject of Databases and the Web and should come from a paper in the WebDB Conferences (Preferably 2002 and after). Final work should be written as one single paper. The groups and schedule are as follows:

April 22, 2005: Groups 1 to 5 (30 minutes each)

1. Group 1: Liyang Yu, Ou Li, and Yi Qiu
   Topic: Querying Bi-level Information.
2. Group 2: Vikas Bhardwaj, YongJu Cho, and Dumitru Brinza
   Topic: Web Querying and Mining
3. Group 3: Seema Metikurke and Vidya Rangaswamy
   Topic: Semantic Web: Automatic Data Extraction from large Web sites
4. Group 4: Vijay Jain and Manisha Bajpai
   Topic: XML Schemas and Validation
5. Group 5: Karan Rana, Jaimini Joshi, and Harnish Botadra
   Topic: XML Query Processing
   

April 29, 2005: Groups 6 to 10 (30 minutes each)

1. Group 6: Mathura Gopalan, Navin Viswanath, and Akshaye Dhawan
   Topic: Semantic Web Portal, Ranking, Classification.
2. Group 7: Rishi Gupta, Bhavesh Thakker, Safdar Abedi
   Topic: Semantic Email: Adding lightweight data manipulation capabilities to the email habitat.
3. Group 8: Geoffrey Bays and Ashwati Sadanandan
   Topic: Approaches to XML Stream Querying.
4. Group 9: Milan Pandya, Sandeep Jandhyala, and Harsha Chevuru
   Topic: Information Integration with XML
5. Group 10: Dave Chen and Tung Le
   Topic: Native XML Databases

Each group needs to submit a title, a short abstract stating the research area being investigated, and a bibliography in your group's webpage (first member's page only): http://tinman.cs.gsu.edu/~userid/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.

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 twelve (12) double-spaced pages.