1. About Me Hachim Haddouti, born in 1969, married, one son Ph.D. in Computer Science (Database Management Systems) at Technical University of Munich under Supervision of Prof. Bayer (Inventor of B-Tree) Master in Computer Science (Knowledge Management Systems) at Techical University of Berlin Project Manager at BMW Senior Consultant and Project Manager at DaimlerChrysler Services 4 years Research and Teaching at Technical University of Munich UNESCO Consultant Visiting Scientist at Tsukuba University, Japan, University of Sta. Barbara University, California; University of Catania, Italy; Beijing Univ China … Area of Interest: DBMS, Digital Libraries, Document & Content & Knowledge Management, XML databases and Web technologies, Multilinguality etc. More at www.haddouti.de

2. Organizational  Textbook and many other links  Lab start next week Choosing projects (think of MS projects) Exams: bring your own paper And also details see mail.alakhawayn.ma/~H.Haddouti

3. Paper Presentation Topics 1.XML Schema, 1, week 15/9 2.XSL Transformation, 1, week of 15/9 3.Storing XML using Rel. Model, 1 4.Storing XML using native Storage, 1 5.Storing XML using ORDMS, 1 6.XML Views, 1 7.Indexing Structure for XML, 2 8.XML Query and Xpath, 2 9.DBMS Support XML (Oracle, IBM extender, SQL Server, Tamino), 3 10.Applications (Lorel, Strudel, etc.), 3

4. Projects XML Parser XML Indexer Fulltext search in XML Storage of XML (eg. using XML Schema for storing XML docs in RDBMS) Efficient caching of XML docs Implementation of XQuery on ORDBMS Benchmarking: SML Support in some DBMS, in particular query processing Etc.

5. Term Projects In your term project, you will bring together concepts and tools, in order to develop a complete XML and DM application of your choice. Your project evaluation will be based on: Your Project Proposal (September, 13 12:00 am ); A first deliverable (October, 31 12:00 ), consisting of your design and application description/spec A final deliverable (November 28, 12:00) consisting of your complete application; along with a final report and demo. Demo and Presentation: You will be required to present your project and do a Demo.(Week of Dec 1)