Carnegie Mellon University
15-826 Multimedia Databases and Data Mining
Spring 2008 - C. Faloutsos
Midterm Study Guide

Preliminaries

• All aids allowed, EXCEPT laptops (for the wireless connection).
• Duration: 1h 20 minutes
• Place: in class, during class time, 1:30-2:50pm, on Tu 2/26 (as announced).
• Extra office hours: see course web site.

Notice:

Required text

• [Textbook] C. Faloutsos Searching Multimedia Databases by Content, Kluwer Academic Press, 1996. Evaluation draft (internal to CMU -  pdf)

Recommended text

• Undergraduate DB textbook, for those who took a db class too long ago:
  • Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke, "Database Management Systems," McGraw-Hill 2002 (3rd ed).

MATERIAL TO BE EXAMINED

1. Foils:

• From the course schedule, all the foils, up to and including '180_fractals3.pdf'. Notice that the file names for the foils are numbered in increasing order.

2. Multimedia Indexing

• Primary key access methods
  • Litwin, W., (1980), Linear Hashing: A New Tool for File and Table Addressing, VLDB, Montreal, Canada, 1980.
  • Textbook, chapters 2-3
• Secondary key and spatial access methods
  • A. Guttman R-Trees: a Dynamic Index Structure for Spatial Searching, Proc. ACM SIGMOD, June 1984, pp. 47-57, Boston, Mass.
  • J. Orenstein, Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System, Proc. ACM SIGMOD, May, 1986, pp. 326-336, Washington D.C.
  • Ibrahim Kamel and Christos Faloutsos, Hilbert R-tree: An improved R-tree using fractals Proc. of VLDB Conference, Santiago, Chile, Sept. 12-15, 1994, pp. 500-509. ( gzipped postscript)
  • Roberto F. Santos Filho, Agma Traina, Caetano Traina Jr., and Christos Faloutsos: Similarity search without tears: the OMNI family of all-purpose access methods ICDE, Heidelberg, Germany, April 2-6 2001.
  • Textbook, chapters 4 and 5.
• Fractals
  
  • Christos Faloutsos and Ibrahim Kamel, Beyond Uniformity and Independence: Analysis of R-trees Using the Concept of Fractal Dimension, Proc. ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART PODS, May 1994, pp. 4-13, Minneapolis, MN. (and gzipped postscript)
  • Alberto Belussi and Christos Faloutsos, Estimating the Selectivity of Spatial Queries Using the `Correlation' Fractal Dimension Proc. of VLDB, p. 299-310, 1995 (and gzipped postscript )

Last modified: 02/20/2008, by Christos Faloutsos