• Syllabus
• Schedule
• Foils

**** NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS ****

• *** 4/30/2003 *** Final exam study guide
• ***4/30/2003*** Extra office hour
• Fri 5/2, 12:30-1:30pm

• *** 4/28/2003**** Additional, mandatory reading material
• Byoung-Kee Yi et al.: Online Data Mining for Co-Evolving Time Sequences, ICDE 2000. (Describes MUSCLES and Recursive Least Squares)
• Mengzhi Wang, et al.: Data Mining Meets Performance Evaluation: Fast Algorithms for Modeling Bursty Traffic, ICDE 2002, San Jose, CA.
• additional mandatory reading material for fractals
• Faloutsos & Kamel, PODS 94
• Belussi et al, VLDB 95

• and for SVD:
• Korn et al, sigmod97; 
• Ratio rules: Korn et al VLDB98
• Appendix D in book on multimedia indexing (evaluation copy - internal to CMU)

• Supplemental, mandatory reading material:
• paper on recovery, by Michael Franklin
• Papers on buffering: LRU-K and 2Q 
• paper on z-ordering by Orenstein
• book on multimedia indexing + R-trees (evaluation copy - internal to CMU)

Course information

• Instructor: Christos Faloutsos, 

mail: christos AT cs DOT cmu DOT edu
office: Wean Hall 7127, ph (412)-268.1457
office hours:  Tu 1-2; We 3-4; or by appointment
• Class meets: Tu-Th 3:00-4:20, in WeH 4615A
• URL for this very web page: www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/721.S03

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Project: 

• Project guidelines 
• List of suggested projects (internal to CMU) 
• Grading scheme for final project report

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Homeworks: 

• Homework 1 and test scripts 
• Homework 2; test queries and readme-file

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Exams guidelines: 

• Midterm study guide
• (***4/30/2003**)Final exam study guide

Newsgroup 

Misc. resources

• ACM SIGMOD home page (DBMS resources, free software, papers, conference info)
• Michael Ley's DB bibliography server (impressive!)
• DB Vendors: Oracle, Sybase, IBM - DB2, Microsoft SQL Server
• ACM SIGKDD home page (data mining tools, datasets and other resources)
• multimedia retrieval: Informedia at CMU: video retrieval by content