1. 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) http://www.coit.uncc.edu/coit_new/techsupport/oracle.cfm https://cci-wiki01.uncc.edu/oracle http://coit-ora01.uncc.edu:8080/isqlplus/

2. Project 1 Step 2: Obtain the attributes and schemas for each entity set in this mini- database from: http://www.cs.uncc.edu/ http://www.sis.uncc.edu/ http://www.uncc.edu Step 3: Schema for entity sets: Faculties (name, phone number, office room, title, email, 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)

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

4. 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.

5. 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?

6. Project 2. Internet Store See text book, page 49-50 Books Customers orders isbn title authors qty_in_stock price year-published cid cname address qty Order_day cardnum Ship_day

7. Project 2 Assignment Step 1: Set up your Oracle account at: http://www.coit.uncc.edu/coit_new/techsupport/oracle.cfm https://cci-wiki01.uncc.edu/oracle http://coit-ora01.uncc.edu:8080/isqlplus/ Step 2: Obtain the attributes and schemas for each entity set in this mini- database from text book or the given E-R model

8. 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.

9. 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 http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.htmlhttp://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets.html Step 4: test your KD-tree implementation on these data sets and assess whether your implementation can support nearest-neighbor search

10. 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

11. 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

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

13. 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.

14. 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

15. 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!