Lecture Time

Day	Time	Location	Lecturers
Tue	16:00 - 19:00	Law Theatre G23 (K-F8-G23)	Wei Wang (Wk 1 -- 4) Jian Zhang (Wk 5 -- 7) Xuemin Lin (Wk 8 -- 11) Raymond Wong (Wk 12 -- 14)

Course Consultation Time

Day	Time	Location	Who
Wed	4:00pm-5:00pm	Check with the correpsonding lecturer	the corresponding lecturer

Course Description

This is a research course. We will introduce the recent research topics in stream data management system and Web application based database system, respectively, with the focus on query processing optimization techniques. We will also introduce the state-of-art technology in Web searching and multimedia databases. These include: 1) Stream Computation, 2) Keyword Search in DB, 3) XML technology, 4) IR in Multimedia.

Text Book

No single textbook. The course materials will be mainly based on research papers.

Reference Books

M. Garofalakis, J. Gehrke, and R. Rastogi, Query and Mining Data Streams: You only get one look, Tutorial Notes in VLDB2002.

Selected papers from the conference proceedings of SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, SIGKDD, SIGIR, etc.

D. Feng, W.C.Siu and H.J.Zhang, Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management, Springer, 2003.

R. Baeza-Yates and B. Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval, Addison Wesley, 1999.

Assessment

Number	Name	Marks
ass1	Keyword Search in DB & IR	100
ass2	Multimedia IR	100
ass3	Data Stream Computation	100
ass4	XML	100
Later Submission Penalties: 10% reduction of your marks for the 1st day, 30% reduction/day for the following days
The final mark is calculated by your average marks in the four assignments: Final Mark= (ass1 + ass2 + ass3 + ass4)/4