1. ENGS 112 Fall 2003 Topic: Data and Process Mining

2. Syllabus 1Goals of course, general overview 2Visual Studio.net and web services XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, etc 3Data mining applications market basket analysis, doubleclick, churning techniques privacy issues 4SQL and Databases 5Semantic web concepts RDF, DAML, Ontologies 6Process descriptions/models HMM's, Decision Trees, Petri nets 7Autonomic Computing and other related technologies 8Projects 9Projects 10Wrapup

3. What you will learn…. Web services (.Net) framework Data mining basics SQL Database operation Visual Studio environment Advanced initiatives – autonomic computing Speaking/presentation skills

4. What you will do…. Presentations –at least one report about a paper (10-15 mins) –final project report (1/2 hour) Projects –several homework type assignments –more ambitious, final project Reading about new technology Using new technology

5. First Assignment (due April 10) Install Visual Studio.Net on your machine Develop XML Schema or DTD for a domain Write a Visual Studio program to parse XML according to Schema/DTD Perform other computation on XML

6. Logistics 11 block X periods on Tuesdays My travel schedule - we will use X periods Laptops if needed can be obtained from Shay Cooper Visual Studio CD’s – Yijin will announce Web site for class will be developed soon Introductions