Project 1 Assignment Building a mini-database for CCI in UNCC which includes entity sets: departments (CS,SIS, bioinformatics), faculties, courses given in Fall 2012 or Spring2012. Steps for Project Implementation: Step 1: Set up your Oracle account at: 1.Course Management System for the College of Computing Informatics (CCI)

Project 1 Step 2: Obtain the attributes and schemas for each entity set in this mini- database from: Step 3: Schema for entity sets: Faculties (name, phone number, office room, title, , research areas) Departments (name, number of faculties, main office) Courses (name, course ID, class room, professor’s name, class time) Students (name, ID, phone, age, address) (virtual information for students)

Project 1 Step 4: Relationship sets and their attributes faculties courses departments Teach time work_in since Students enroll

Project 1 Step 5: use SQL to generate tables for these entity sets and relationship sets Step 6: support basic search in your implementation If you can build interface for your implementation, you can get benefit on your final grade! Step 7: use JDBC to build interface Requirements: (1) all courses should be included; (2) all faculties in CCI should be included; (3) all departments in CCI should be included; (4) the number of virtual students in student table should be above 200.

Samples of Test Questions Give me ``entering year” for the professor who teach ITCS 3160 at Spring 2012? Give me ``office number” for the department of CS? Give me ``office number” for the instructor of ITCS 3160 at Spring 2012? Give me ``course name” taught by Prof. Wang at Spring 2012?

Project 2. Internet Store See text book, page Books Customers orders isbn title authors qty_in_stock price year-published cid cname address qty Order_day cardnum Ship_day

Project 2 Assignment Step 1: Set up your Oracle account at: Step 2: Obtain the attributes and schemas for each entity set in this mini- database from text book or the given E-R model

Project 2 Step 3: use SQL to generate tables for these entity sets and relationship sets Step 4: support basic search in your implementation If you can build interface for your implementation, you can get benefit on your final grade! Step 5: use JDBC to build interface Requirements: (1) at least 1000 books in table books; (2) at least 1000 customers in table customer.

Project 3 Assignment Project 3: construct KD-tree indexing for given data sets Step 1: read the papers or online documents for KD-tree and discuss this with your instructor Step 2: find some online source code for KD-tree implementation and compile in your computer Step 3: obtain data sets from Step 4: test your KD-tree implementation on these data sets and assess whether your implementation can support nearest-neighbor search

Project 3 Assignment Requirements: interface for loading data sets and visualization of KD-tree structure for the data sets Evaluations: Loading Data sets Computing for tree construction Tree Visualization Nearest Neighbor Search

Project 4 Assignment Project 4: Design an external sorting system for image ranking Implementation: (a) download 10,000 images from Google Images, Flickr.com or Facebook

Project 4 Assignment Implementation: (b) Extract visual features for image representation

Project 4 Assignment Implementation: (c) Similarity function for image similarity measurement; (d) image sorting according to their similarity function; (e) external sorting according to image similarity function by considering memory limitation Evaluation: Given a query result ( a set of images), provide rank list.

Project 5 Assignment Project 5: Hot person determination from a social network Implementation: (a) crawling social connection from Facebook, LikedIN or other social sites; (b) constructing social network among persons: persons and their connection strengths; © identifying the hot persons which have most connections or the hubs for information distribution

a. You can pick up one of these projects and implement it! b. Project due day: April 23 and April 25, 2012, Computer Lab 335!